As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
Twin Cities Area
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery and Wurstery is located near the Mississippi River in Saint Paul, Minnesota. It...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Apartments
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Greater Minnesota
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Almelund Creamery
Endion School In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
District 48 School Near Delano
Remembering Quadna Resort
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Milford Monument
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Duluth Homestead Project
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Dotson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
District 6 School in New Sweden
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome to Hanska
Hanover Bridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Le Sueur Theater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Sandstone
Moving Old Hibbing
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Old School In Wolverton
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The End of the Line in Currie
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Old Brewery In Preston
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Green Lake Mounds
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Little Marais Inn
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
State Theater In Hutchinson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Wasioja
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Ottawa
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Church of the Holy Cross
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Red Wing Iron Works
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Cobden
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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