The Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis was one of the rare mills in the city that had four finished...
Twin Cities Area
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Lowry Hotel opened in 1927 and was 12 floors of pure glamour. An addition was made in 1930 to...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Robbinsdale Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Townhomes
Greater Minnesota
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Planning for a new road for stagecoach travel westward from the Mississippi began in the winter of...
Exploring Sandstone
The city of Sandstone, Minnesota, was platted and incorporated in 1887. The area was a major hub...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hanover Bridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lost Highway 61
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Franconia
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
District 48 School Near Delano
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Florence Town Hall
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Dotson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Almelund Creamery
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Visiting Golden Gate
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Le Sueur Theater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Wasioja
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Little Falls Depot
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Moving Old Hibbing
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Endion School In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Milford Monument
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome to Hanska
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hollywood Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Old School In Wolverton
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Enter Marlon Brando
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Red Wing Iron Works
The Little Marais Inn
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

