The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
Twin Cities Area
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Apartments
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wilder Public Baths
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Townhomes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Robbinsdale Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lincoln Park is 37 acres of space along Miller Creek in Duluth’s west end. Today, the park includes...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Munger Terrace has been a landmark in Duluth’s Central Hillside neighborhood since the building was...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Visiting Golden Gate
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hollywood Town Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Duluth Homestead Project
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Milford Monument
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Franconia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Cobden
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Little Marais Inn
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Endion School In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The End of the Line in Currie
The Almelund Creamery
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Sandstone
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hanover Bridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Dotson
Lost Highway 61
Endion Depot In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
District 48 School Near Delano
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 6 School in New Sweden
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Red Wing Iron Works
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Little Falls Depot
The Le Sueur Theater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Enter Marlon Brando
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bend in the River Regional Park
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Brewery In Preston
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Remembering Quadna Resort
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Florence Town Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Finding The Past In Swatara
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

