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
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The first pavilion was built on the shore of Lake Como in St. Paul in 1894. The wooden pavilion was...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Robbinsdale Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Apartments
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
In 1909, just eight years after this school was built in Sandstone, lightning struck. Sadly, the...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Geldner Sawmill stands on a narrow strip of land that separates Lake Jefferson and German Lake...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The New Ulm Company Service Station
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Dotson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hollywood Town Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The End of the Line in Currie
Moving Old Hibbing
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Ottawa
The Le Sueur Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Endion School In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Franconia
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Endion Depot In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Cobden
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Red Wing Iron Works
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lost Highway 61
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Jordan Brewery Complex
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Almelund Creamery
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Duluth Homestead Project
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Sandstone
Finding The Past In Swatara
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
District 48 School Near Delano
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Florence Town Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Little Marais Inn
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Little Falls Depot
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Milford Monument
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Almond White and the Motley Castle
State Theater In Hutchinson
Moderne New Ulm Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Old School In Wolverton
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hanover Bridge
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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