The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
Twin Cities Area
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Lowry Hotel opened in 1927 and was 12 floors of pure glamour. An addition was made in 1930 to...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Harry A. Subilia was an Italian immigrant who opened the first distillery in New Ulm, Minnesota. He...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Little Marais Inn
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The End of the Line in Currie
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
State Theater In Hutchinson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Meyer School In St Augusta
Oxford Mill Ruin
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Le Sueur Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Incline Railway
District 48 School Near Delano
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Sandstone
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bend in the River Regional Park
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Red Wing Iron Works
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Little Falls Depot
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Dotson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion Depot In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
District 6 School in New Sweden
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Moving Old Hibbing
Florence Town Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Cobden
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Green Lake Mounds
The Almelund Creamery
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Milford Monument
Daniel Piper House in Medford
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Ottawa
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Old Wadena
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hanover Bridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Moderne New Ulm Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Visiting Golden Gate
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome to Hanska
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Remembering Quadna Resort
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
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...

