It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
Twin Cities Area
Wilder Public Baths
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s Guardians of Health
The Washburn water tower sits on a hill in the heart of the Washburn Park (commonly known as...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Robbinsdale Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Saint Paul Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Greater Minnesota
Hollywood Town Hall
The Carver County District Number 76 School was built in 1906 and opened for classes in the fall of...
Remembering Quadna Resort
When I arrived at the Quadna Resort, I felt like I’d stepped back in time. Although the lodge...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lost Highway 61
Meyer School In St Augusta
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Old Brewery In Preston
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Enter Marlon Brando
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Little Falls Depot
Historic Wasioja
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hanover Bridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Moving Old Hibbing
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Franconia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Oxford Mill Ruin
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Old Wadena
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Duluth Homestead Project
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Endion School In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Florence Town Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
District 6 School in New Sweden
District 48 School Near Delano
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Dotson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Old School In Wolverton
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Visiting Golden Gate
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Red Wing Iron Works
Moderne New Ulm Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Sandstone
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
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...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...

