This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
Twin Cities Area
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Horatio Alden Smith made the bulk of his fortune as the co-owner of the Smith and Wyman Sash and...
Wilder Public Baths
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Robbinsdale Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Saint Paul Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The West Bridge in Madelia, Minnesota, was built in 1908. It is the earliest remaining example of a...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Oxford Mill Ruin
The End of the Line in Currie
District 48 School Near Delano
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Ottawa
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Wasioja
Lincoln Park In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Sandstone
The Old School In Wolverton
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
The Little Marais Inn
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Duluth Homestead Project
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Brewery In Preston
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Milford Monument
Lost Highway 61
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Green Lake Mounds
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Florence Town Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Cobden
Red Wing Iron Works
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Moderne New Ulm Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome to Hanska
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Enter Marlon Brando
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Old Wadena
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Wandering Around The Toimi School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hanover Bridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
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 The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

