The McKnight’s Park Avenue mansion was completed in 1892 for a total cost of nearly $36,000...
Twin Cities Area
Sumner McKnight 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...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Apartments
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Townhomes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Robbinsdale Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Landmark Center In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Greater Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The childhood home of children’s book author and illustrator Wanda Gag was built in New Ulm...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Enter Marlon Brando
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Little Marais Inn
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Endion Depot In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Milford Monument
The Old School In Wolverton
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Wasioja
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Green Lake Mounds
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Ottawa
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
State Theater In Hutchinson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Moving Old Hibbing
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Meyer School In St Augusta
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome to Hanska
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Little Falls Depot
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Sandstone
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Le Sueur Theater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Endion School In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
District 48 School Near Delano
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Almelund Creamery
Oxford Mill Ruin
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hanover Bridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lost Highway 61
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Florence Town Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Brewery In Preston
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

