The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
Twin Cities Area
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wilder Public Baths
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Saint Paul Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Greater Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Little Falls Depot
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome to Hanska
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Enter Marlon Brando
Jordan Brewery Complex
Meyer School In St Augusta
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring Ottawa
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Duluth Homestead Project
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Visiting Golden Gate
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Endion School In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Remembering Quadna Resort
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Dotson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Old School In Wolverton
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Wasioja
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Almelund Creamery
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
District 48 School Near Delano
Green Lake Mounds
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Milford Monument
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Cobden
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Sandstone
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bend in the River Regional Park
Moving Old Hibbing
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hollywood Town Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Little Marais Inn
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hanover Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Old Wadena
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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