Built in 1913, the Charles and Grace Parker House was designed by the nationally-prominent Prairie...
Twin Cities Area
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Robbinsdale Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Saint Paul Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Beaver Bay is the oldest white settlement along the North Shore of Lake Superior. It was...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Arthur Orr was a 286’ steel package freighter built by the Chicago Ship Building Company. She...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lost Highway 61
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Almelund Creamery
State Theater In Hutchinson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
The Milford Monument
Moving Old Hibbing
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome to Hanska
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Florence Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hanover Bridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Enter Marlon Brando
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Little Falls Depot
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Franconia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Ottawa
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Green Lake Mounds
Endion School In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The End of the Line in Currie
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Remembering Quadna Resort
District 48 School Near Delano
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hollywood Town Hall
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Visiting Golden Gate
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Red Wing Iron Works
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Sandstone
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Taylor House In Le Sueur
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Wasioja
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Meyer School In St Augusta
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bend in the River Regional Park
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Little Marais Inn
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Church of the Holy Cross
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
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...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

