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
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Apartments
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Greater Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Moving Old Hibbing
Endion Depot In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Old School In Wolverton
District 6 School in New Sweden
Daniel Piper House in Medford
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Church of the Holy Cross
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Dotson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Sandstone
Enter Marlon Brando
The Almelund Creamery
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome to Hanska
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Milford Monument
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bend in the River Regional Park
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Wasioja
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Franconia
Finding The Past In Swatara
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Cobden
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Old Brewery In Preston
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
District 48 School Near Delano
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Red Wing Iron Works
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Jordan Brewery Complex
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Little Falls Depot
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lost Highway 61
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

