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
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Robbinsdale Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wilder Public Baths
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Apartments
Greater Minnesota
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Minnesota Home School for Girls was established by the state legislature in 1907 as a...
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Green Lake Mounds
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lost Highway 61
District 48 School Near Delano
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome to Hanska
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Ottawa
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The End of the Line in Currie
Endion Depot In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Jordan Brewery Complex
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hanover Bridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Milford Monument
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Little Falls Depot
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Old School In Wolverton
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Franconia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Almelund Creamery
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Dotson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
The Duluth Homestead Project
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Little Marais Inn
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Cobden
Red Wing Iron Works
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Wasioja
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Old Brewery In Preston
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Oxford Mill Ruin
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Endion School In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hollywood Town Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
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...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
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...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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