As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
Twin Cities Area
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg and his wife Dora were the owners of a jewelry store in downtown Minneapolis in the...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Robbinsdale Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wilder Public Baths
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Townhomes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Apartments
Greater Minnesota
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Minnesota Home School for Girls was established by the state legislature in 1907 as a...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Old School In Wolverton
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Wasioja
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The End of the Line in Currie
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome to Hanska
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Old Brewery In Preston
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Endion School In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion Depot In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Visiting Golden Gate
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Ruins of Sawyer School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lost Highway 61
Hanover Bridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Red Wing Iron Works
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Franconia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Little Marais Inn
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Moving Old Hibbing
The Almelund Creamery
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Duluth Homestead Project
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
State Theater In Hutchinson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Milford Monument
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Cobden
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Ottawa
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Florence Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Remembering Quadna Resort
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Moderne New Ulm Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Little Falls Depot
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

