When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
Twin Cities Area
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Apartments
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State Hospital
In 1873, the State of Minnesota was looking for a way to house an increasingly problematic group of...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Le Sueur Theater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hanover Bridge
Historic Wasioja
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Little Falls Depot
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Red Wing Iron Works
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Remembering Quadna Resort
District 6 School in New Sweden
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The End of the Line in Currie
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Dotson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Wandering Around The Toimi School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lost Highway 61
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hollywood Town Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
District 48 School Near Delano
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Church of the Holy Cross
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Milford Monument
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Little Marais Inn
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Meyer School In St Augusta
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Cobden
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Endion School In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Sandstone
Ruins of Sawyer School
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Florence Town Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Green Lake Mounds
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Franconia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Almelund Creamery
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 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?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...

