This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
Twin Cities Area
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Saint Paul Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Greater Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Almelund Creamery
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome to Hanska
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The End of the Line in Currie
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Florence Town Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Church of the Holy Cross
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Milford Monument
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
District 48 School Near Delano
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Meyer School In St Augusta
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Oxford Mill Ruin
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Old Wadena
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Jordan Brewery Complex
Green Lake Mounds
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Dotson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Red Wing Iron Works
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Moving Old Hibbing
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Little Falls Depot
Lost Highway 61
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Old School In Wolverton
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Wasioja
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Cobden
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Le Sueur Theater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Sandstone
District 6 School in New Sweden
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Ottawa
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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