Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Twin Cities Area
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Landmark Center In St Paul
Landmark Center in St Paul, Minnesota, was dedicated in 1902 and originally served as the Federal...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Eight Days in May Protests
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wilder Public Baths
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Greater Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
Lost Highway 61
History buffs and curiosity seekers revel in finding a piece of the past. Stumbling across...
Green Lake Mounds
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The End of the Line in Currie
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Old School In Wolverton
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Jordan Brewery Complex
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Wasioja
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Little Falls Depot
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Ottawa
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Lincoln Park In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Little Marais Inn
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Ruins of Sawyer School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Old Brewery In Preston
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Franconia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Moving Old Hibbing
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Endion Depot In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Dotson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Cobden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
District 48 School Near Delano
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hanover Bridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Old Wadena
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
District 6 School in New Sweden
Florence Town Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Enter Marlon Brando
Red Wing Iron Works
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...
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 Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
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 Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

