World-renowned author F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in an apartment on the second floor of this...
Twin Cities Area
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The McKnight’s Park Avenue mansion was completed in 1892 for a total cost of nearly $36,000...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Townhomes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wilder Public Baths
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Apartments
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The charming town of Winona, Minnesota, once played host to an extraordinary tale in the world of...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
At around 3:30 p.m. on February 5, 1924, the most devastating mining disaster in Minnesota history...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Green Lake Mounds
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Old School In Wolverton
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Meyer School In St Augusta
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Franconia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Almelund Creamery
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hanover Bridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Endion Depot In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Incline Railway
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The End of the Line in Currie
Little Falls Depot
District 48 School Near Delano
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Visiting Golden Gate
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Cobden
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Florence Town Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
Moving Old Hibbing
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Wasioja
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Remembering Quadna Resort
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
District 6 School in New Sweden
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Sandstone
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Endion School In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lost Highway 61
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bend in the River Regional Park
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Milford Monument
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Dotson
Hollywood Town Hall
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...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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