Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Twin Cities Area
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wilder Public Baths
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Apartments
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Greater Minnesota
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
St Rose of Lima church was built in 1878. The church and its cemetery sit on over an acre of land...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Two Island Project In the fall of 1953, the peaceful quiet of the north shore just south of...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Endion School In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
State Theater In Hutchinson
Little Falls Depot
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Sandstone
Bend in the River Regional Park
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
District 6 School in New Sweden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Florence Town Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Visiting Golden Gate
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome to Hanska
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Endion Depot In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Almelund Creamery
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hanover Bridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Duluth Homestead Project
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Moving Old Hibbing
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Taylor House In Le Sueur
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Enter Marlon Brando
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Ottawa
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Historic Franconia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Meyer School In St Augusta
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Milford Monument
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Old School In Wolverton
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Little Marais Inn
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
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...

