Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Twin Cities Area
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
It may have been luck that spared the Colonnade Hotel the same fate as so many other old downtown...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Greater Minnesota
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Oxford Mill was located on the bank of the Little Cannon River near Cannon Falls. When the mill...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
District 6 School in New Sweden
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Little Marais Inn
District 48 School Near Delano
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Milford Monument
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood Town Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Ottawa
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Jordan Brewery Complex
Ruins of Sawyer School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Duluth Homestead Project
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Red Wing Iron Works
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Enter Marlon Brando
Meyer School In St Augusta
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
State Theater In Hutchinson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Almelund Creamery
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Dotson
Little Falls Depot
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Le Sueur Theater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Green Lake Mounds
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The End of the Line in Currie
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Sandstone
Lost Highway 61
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Florence Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Old Brewery In Preston
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome to Hanska
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Visiting Golden Gate
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Finding The Past In Swatara
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Endion School In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
The Church of the Holy Cross
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
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...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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