Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Twin Cities Area
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Today, The Blaisdell is a wedding and event venue with cozy places to gather with your nearest and...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Apartments
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wilder Public Baths
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Townhomes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Greater Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Oxford Mill was located on the bank of the Little Cannon River near Cannon Falls. When the mill...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Sandstone
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hollywood Town Hall
Lost Highway 61
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Old Wadena
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Duluth Homestead Project
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Old Brewery In Preston
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Endion School In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Little Marais Inn
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Almelund Creamery
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Jordan Brewery Complex
Munger Terrace In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Endion Depot In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Wasioja
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Le Sueur Theater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
State Theater In Hutchinson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Green Lake Mounds
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Florence Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Dotson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hanover Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The End of the Line in Currie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Franconia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Cobden
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
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