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
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Robbinsdale Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Two Island Project In the fall of 1953, the peaceful quiet of the north shore just south of...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
Historic Franconia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Le Sueur Theater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Endion School In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Red Wing Iron Works
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lundring Service Station in Canby
District 6 School in New Sweden
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lost Highway 61
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Green Lake Mounds
Visiting Golden Gate
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Old Wadena
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Little Marais Inn
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Sandstone
State Theater In Hutchinson
Old Brewery In Preston
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Moving Old Hibbing
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Enter Marlon Brando
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Almelund Creamery
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Oxford Mill Ruin
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hanover Bridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Florence Town Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Little Falls Depot
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Moderne New Ulm Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood Town Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Wasioja
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
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...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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