The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Twin Cities Area
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Located in Robbinsdale, the international-style Terrace Theatre opened on May 23, 1951. At the...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Saint Paul Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District Number 11 in McLeod County was first organized in 1865 to serve the predominantly Czech...
Exploring Ottawa
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Finding The Past In Swatara
Green Lake Mounds
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome to Hanska
Lost Highway 61
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Oxford Mill Ruin
Visiting Golden Gate
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Meyer School In St Augusta
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Old School In Wolverton
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hanover Bridge
The Almelund Creamery
Red Wing Iron Works
The New Ulm Company Service Station
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
The Church of the Holy Cross
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bend in the River Regional Park
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Munger Terrace In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Endion Depot In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Franconia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The End of the Line in Currie
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Old Brewery In Preston
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Cobden
Jordan Brewery Complex
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Sandstone
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Little Marais Inn
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
District 48 School Near Delano
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Enter Marlon Brando
Endion School In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Florence Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
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...
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
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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