Charles G. Jackson immigrated to the U.S. and purchased the Anoka House, the oldest hotel in Anoka...
Twin Cities Area
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Landmark Center In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Townhomes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Robbinsdale Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Apartments
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Orpheum Theater in Duluth, Minnesota, was built on the old Temple Opera House site. The opera...
Visiting Golden Gate
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome to Hanska
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Finding The Past In Swatara
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Old Brewery In Preston
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Almelund Creamery
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hanover Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Jordan Brewery Complex
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Cobden
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Endion School In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Old Wadena
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Dotson
Hollywood Town Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
Moving Old Hibbing
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
District 6 School in New Sweden
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Ottawa
Lost Highway 61
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Little Falls Depot
Florence Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Red Wing Iron Works
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Franconia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Church of the Holy Cross
State Theater In Hutchinson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Enter Marlon Brando
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

