Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Twin Cities Area
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Robbinsdale Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wilder Public Baths
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Apartments
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Saint Paul Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Almelund Creamery
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Franconia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
The Old School In Wolverton
The Church of the Holy Cross
Enter Marlon Brando
The Le Sueur Theater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Milford Monument
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Red Wing Iron Works
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hollywood Town Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bend in the River Regional Park
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hanover Bridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The End of the Line in Currie
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Old Brewery In Preston
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Green Lake Mounds
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Cobden
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Ruins of Sawyer School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lost Highway 61
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Duluth Homestead Project
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Dotson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
State Theater In Hutchinson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
District 48 School Near Delano
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Wasioja
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Little Marais Inn
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...

