George H. Christian was a manager at the Washburn-Crosby Company in Minneapolis who worked out a...
Twin Cities Area
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The St Paul Hotel has been the backbone of charm and elegance in downtown St Paul since it opened...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Townhomes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Apartments
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Little Falls Depot
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Endion School In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lost Highway 61
Old Brewery In Preston
Moving Old Hibbing
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Moderne New Ulm Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The End of the Line in Currie
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Wasioja
The Duluth Homestead Project
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Franconia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Finding The Past In Swatara
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Milford Monument
Jordan Brewery Complex
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Old School In Wolverton
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Red Wing Iron Works
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Sandstone
State Theater In Hutchinson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Ottawa
Remembering Quadna Resort
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Dotson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Florence Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Visiting Golden Gate
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Meyer School In St Augusta
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City