Harry F. Legg and his wife Dora were the owners of a jewelry store in downtown Minneapolis in the...
Twin Cities Area
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The District #28 School was constructed in Ramsey in 1892 to replace a smaller, wood frame school...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Townhomes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hollywood Town Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Oxford Mill Ruin
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Endion Depot In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Almelund Creamery
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Daniel Piper House in Medford
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Visiting Golden Gate
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Church of the Holy Cross
Enter Marlon Brando
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Little Falls Depot
Red Wing Iron Works
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Dotson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lost Highway 61
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Ottawa
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Wasioja
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Finding The Past In Swatara
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome to Hanska
Bend in the River Regional Park
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
The Milford Monument
Exploring Sandstone
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
The Le Sueur Theater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The End of the Line in Currie
Endion School In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Florence Town Hall
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

