When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
Twin Cities Area
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Townhomes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gates of Stonebridge
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wilder Public Baths
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
District #28 School in Ramsey
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Saint Paul Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Apartments
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
District 48 School Near Delano
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Enter Marlon Brando
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Sandstone
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Cobden
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Meyer School In St Augusta
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Endion School In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Old Wadena
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
State Theater In Hutchinson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hanover Bridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Florence Town Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Wasioja
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Old School In Wolverton
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lost Highway 61
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Franconia
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Milford Monument
The Little Marais Inn
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Little Falls Depot
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central 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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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