In 1899, the Twin City Rapid Transit Company extended its reach of their streetcars to the...
Twin Cities Area
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Originally named the Palazzo, the Colonnade Hotel opened on St. Peter Street in Saint Paul in 1888...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Saint Paul Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gates of Stonebridge
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Robbinsdale Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The public library in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota was built in 1913 with a $10,000 grant from Andrew...
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Cobden
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Moving Old Hibbing
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lost Highway 61
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome to Hanska
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Finding The Past In Swatara
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Almelund Creamery
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Moderne New Ulm Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Le Sueur Theater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Remembering Quadna Resort
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The End of the Line in Currie
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Ottawa
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Little Marais Inn
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood Town Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Milford Monument
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion School In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Little Falls Depot
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Green Lake Mounds
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hanover Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
District 48 School Near Delano
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
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...

