In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Saint Paul Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Townhomes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Landmark Center In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Apartments
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
This gorgeous Second Empire style home in Hastings was built for William Thompson in 1880. Thompson...
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...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Le Sueur Theater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Endion School In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Dotson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Old Brewery In Preston
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Little Marais Inn
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Milford Monument
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Meyer School In St Augusta
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Florence Town Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
District 48 School Near Delano
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hollywood Town Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome to Hanska
Oxford Mill Ruin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Visiting Golden Gate
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Old Wadena
Jordan Brewery Complex
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Red Wing Iron Works
Little Falls Depot
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Sandstone
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Franconia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The End of the Line in Currie
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lost Highway 61
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Endion Depot In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Enter Marlon Brando
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
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...

