As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
Twin Cities Area
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Townhomes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
You can’t drive through Zumbrota, Minnesota, without stopping at the covered bridge. It’s located...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Moving Old Hibbing
Meyer School In St Augusta
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Franconia
The Church of the Holy Cross
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lost Highway 61
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hanover Bridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Le Sueur Theater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Cobden
Visiting Golden Gate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hollywood Town Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Sandstone
Bend in the River Regional Park
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Almelund Creamery
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Munger Terrace In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Dotson
Little Falls Depot
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Ottawa
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Old Brewery In Preston
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Remembering Quadna Resort
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome to Hanska
The Milford Monument
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Endion School In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Green Lake Mounds
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Enter Marlon Brando
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Wasioja
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Endion Depot In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
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...

