Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Twin Cities Area
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Townhomes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Eight Days in May Protests
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gates of Stonebridge
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Apartments
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Historic Wasioja
Wasioja, Minnesota, was a thriving community in the 1850s and 1860s. The village was settled in...
Florence Town Hall
Florence Town Hall is located along Highway 61 in Frontenac Station. The land to build the town...
Historic Franconia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Old Brewery In Preston
The Le Sueur Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lost Highway 61
The Milford Monument
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Almelund Creamery
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Moderne New Ulm Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome to Hanska
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Enter Marlon Brando
Hanover Bridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Church of the Holy Cross
The End of the Line in Currie
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Sandstone
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Dotson
District 48 School Near Delano
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Moving Old Hibbing
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
State Theater In Hutchinson
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Cobden
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Old School In Wolverton
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Old Wadena
Red Wing Iron Works
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Green Lake Mounds
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bend in the River Regional Park
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Little Marais Inn
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
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...

