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

