Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Twin Cities Area
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
In 1899, the Twin City Rapid Transit Company extended its reach of their streetcars to the...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Greater Minnesota
Visiting Golden Gate
A post office was first established in Golden Gate, Minnesota, in 1868. The little town sprang up...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Freemasons organized a lodge in Clearwater, Minnesota in 1858 that became known as Masonic...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hanover Bridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Meyer School In St Augusta
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Brewery In Preston
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hollywood Town Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Dotson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Le Sueur Theater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Sandstone
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Wasioja
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome to Hanska
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Florence Town Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
District 6 School in New Sweden
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
The End of the Line in Currie
Moderne New Ulm Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Jordan Brewery Complex
Endion School In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
District 48 School Near Delano
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bend in the River Regional Park
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Franconia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown