The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
Twin Cities Area
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
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...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District Number 11 in McLeod County was first organized in 1865 to serve the predominantly Czech...
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Old School In Wolverton
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Wasioja
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
District 48 School Near Delano
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hollywood Town Hall
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Finding The Past In Swatara
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lost Highway 61
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Le Sueur Theater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Dotson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Ottawa
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome to Hanska
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Milford Monument
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Moving Old Hibbing
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hanover Bridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Red Wing Iron Works
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The End of the Line in Currie
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
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
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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