Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wilder Public Baths
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Townhomes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Rush City Creamery Cooperative was organized in 1907 by a group of local dairy farmers. After...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s Town
When Samuel Pandolfo arrived in St. Cloud in 1917, he dreamed of building an automobile empire that...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Visiting Golden Gate
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
The Church of the Holy Cross
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Enter Marlon Brando
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hanover Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Finding The Past In Swatara
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
District 48 School Near Delano
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Almelund Creamery
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Ottawa
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Brewery In Preston
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Moderne New Ulm Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Jordan Brewery Complex
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Dotson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Little Falls Depot
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Cobden
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Sandstone
Red Wing Iron Works
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lost Highway 61
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Le Sueur Theater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Milford Monument
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The End of the Line in Currie
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Florence Town Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Franconia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Green Lake Mounds
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
District 6 School in New Sweden
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate 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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

