Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Twin Cities Area
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
The St Paul Hotel has been the backbone of charm and elegance in downtown St Paul since it opened...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wilder Public Baths
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Apartments
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
Meyer School In St Augusta
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
State Theater In Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hollywood Town Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
The Almelund Creamery
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Ottawa
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Visiting Golden Gate
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Old Brewery In Preston
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Dotson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Cobden
Enter Marlon Brando
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion School In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Milford Monument
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Florence Town Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Le Sueur Theater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Little Marais Inn
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Old School In Wolverton
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Oxford Mill Ruin
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Old Wadena
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Ruins of Sawyer School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Park In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Green Lake Mounds
The Church of the Holy Cross
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The End of the Line in Currie
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Sandstone
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Dead Good Walks
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...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
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...

