Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Twin Cities Area
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gates of Stonebridge
In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Townhomes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Greater Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Daniel Piper came to Minnesota from New Hampshire with his wife and daughter in early 1877...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
In 1929, the Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge was established in Lanesboro, Minnesota. Membership...
Little Falls Depot
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Le Sueur Theater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Wasioja
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Visiting Golden Gate
State Theater In Hutchinson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
District 48 School Near Delano
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome to Hanska
Endion School In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Old School In Wolverton
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Oxford Mill Ruin
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Enter Marlon Brando
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hollywood Town Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The End of the Line in Currie
The Almelund Creamery
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Milford Monument
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Duluth Homestead Project
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Green Lake Mounds
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bend in the River Regional Park
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Jordan Brewery Complex
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Dotson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Franconia
Exploring Sandstone
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Endion Depot In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

