The Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis was one of the rare mills in the city that had four finished...
Twin Cities Area
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Women’s City Club In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Apartments
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wilder Public Baths
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Saint Paul Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Ok, stick with me here. Can you remember how your elementary school smelled? I can. Vividly. A hint...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Little Falls Depot
District 6 School in New Sweden
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Milford Monument
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Le Sueur Theater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Dotson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Old Brewery In Preston
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Moderne New Ulm Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hollywood Town Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Enter Marlon Brando
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Franconia
Moving Old Hibbing
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lost Highway 61
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bend in the River Regional Park
Remembering Quadna Resort
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Visiting Golden Gate
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Red Wing Iron Works
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
The Little Marais Inn
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Cobden
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Munger Terrace In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Almelund Creamery
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Ottawa
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Incline Railway
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

