In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
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...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Women’s City Club In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
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...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ness Congregation was originally organized as the Norwegian Evangelical St. Johannes...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Endion School In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Cobden
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
State Theater In Hutchinson
Remembering Quadna Resort
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
The End of the Line in Currie
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Moderne New Ulm Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Le Sueur Theater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Ottawa
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Little Falls Depot
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Old Brewery In Preston
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Wasioja
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Florence Town Hall
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Dotson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Franconia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Visiting Golden Gate
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Ruins of Sawyer School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Duluth Homestead Project
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Enter Marlon Brando
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome to Hanska
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
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
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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