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