The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
Twin Cities Area
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wilder Public Baths
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
District #28 School in Ramsey
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
The End of the Line in Currie
In 1899, the Des Moines Valley Railway Company began work on a plan to extend their rail line in...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
I’m sure we’ve all made typos that made us cringe once we noticed them. But most of our...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Le Sueur Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Milford Monument
Green Lake Mounds
District 48 School Near Delano
Jordan Brewery Complex
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Old School In Wolverton
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Florence Town Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Meyer School In St Augusta
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Church of the Holy Cross
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Endion School In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Finding The Past In Swatara
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
The Almelund Creamery
Moving Old Hibbing
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Enter Marlon Brando
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Wasioja
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome to Hanska
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Old Brewery In Preston
Remembering Quadna Resort
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Dotson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bend in the River Regional Park
Red Wing Iron Works
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hollywood Town Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Cobden
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
State Theater In Hutchinson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Visiting Golden Gate
The Duluth Homestead Project
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Ottawa
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
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
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

