If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
Twin Cities Area
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little was a partner in a Minneapolis-based real estate firm. He didn’t leave behind much...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Robbinsdale Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Townhomes
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Apartments
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wilder Public Baths
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
You can’t drive through Zumbrota, Minnesota, without stopping at the covered bridge. It’s located...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Geldner Sawmill stands on a narrow strip of land that separates Lake Jefferson and German Lake...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Little Falls Depot
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Endion School In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The End of the Line in Currie
The Little Marais Inn
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Duluth Homestead Project
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Red Wing Iron Works
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Milford Monument
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Dotson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
District 6 School in New Sweden
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
District 48 School Near Delano
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Old Brewery In Preston
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Cobden
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
State Theater In Hutchinson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Le Sueur Theater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The New Ulm Company Service Station
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Wasioja
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lost Highway 61
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Ottawa
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Sandstone
Green Lake Mounds
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Almelund Creamery
Hollywood Town Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Old School In Wolverton
Hanover Bridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome to Hanska
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

