Built between 1902 and 1904, this beautiful building on its shady lot served southeast Minneapolis...
Twin Cities Area
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
At the turn of the twentieth century, newspapers and magazines touted quack cures and healing cults...
The Saint Paul Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Townhomes
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wilder Public Baths
Women’s City Club In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Greater Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two weeks after the James–Younger Gang raided Northfield the gang appeared at the farm of Ole...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Le Sueur Theater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Red Wing Iron Works
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Sandstone
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Green Lake Mounds
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
The Old School In Wolverton
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Endion Depot In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Jordan Brewery Complex
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lost Highway 61
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Almelund Creamery
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Dotson
Florence Town Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Cobden
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Ottawa
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
District 48 School Near Delano
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Moving Old Hibbing
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hollywood Town Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Endion School In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome to Hanska
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Wasioja
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
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...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

