If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
Twin Cities Area
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance Building In...
The Germania Life Insurance Building was built in 1889 at Fourth Street and Minnesota in downtown...
The Swinford Apartments
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Townhomes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Eight Days in May Protests
Greater Minnesota
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Travelers come upon the Stewart Creek stone-arch bridge in a bend of an unpaved section of Skyline...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hollywood Town Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Old Brewery In Preston
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The End of the Line in Currie
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Wasioja
Red Wing Iron Works
Little Falls Depot
Hanover Bridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Sandstone
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Old Wadena
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Franconia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Florence Town Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Green Lake Mounds
Moderne New Ulm Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Milford Monument
Ruins of Sawyer School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Enter Marlon Brando
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lost Highway 61
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome to Hanska
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Visiting Golden Gate
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Ottawa
Moving Old Hibbing
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Church of the Holy Cross
Meyer School In St Augusta
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
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?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

