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...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Saint Paul Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
In 1872, Joseph Schmucker took over operation of Friton Brewery, which was the first brewery to...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Old School In Wolverton
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Little Falls Depot
The Church of the Holy Cross
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Endion School In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood Town Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Almelund Creamery
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Cobden
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Little Marais Inn
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hanover Bridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Meyer School In St Augusta
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Duluth Homestead Project
State Theater In Hutchinson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome to Hanska
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Jordan Brewery Complex
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Red Wing Iron Works
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Wasioja
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Brewery In Preston
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The End of the Line in Currie
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring Ottawa
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Le Sueur Theater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Lost Highway 61
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Enter Marlon Brando
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

