Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The house at 193 N Mackubin in Saint Paul, Minnesota, was built in 1882. This Second Empire-style...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Robbinsdale Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Townhomes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Greater Minnesota
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Minnesota Home School for Girls was established by the state legislature in 1907 as a...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Old School In Wolverton
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Duluth Homestead Project
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Enter Marlon Brando
The Church of the Holy Cross
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hanover Bridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Visiting Golden Gate
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Wasioja
Welcome to Hanska
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Le Sueur Theater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Moving Old Hibbing
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Cobden
The Almelund Creamery
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Endion Depot In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Dotson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Franconia
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Milford Monument
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Little Marais Inn
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
State Theater In Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Green Lake Mounds
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Red Wing Iron Works
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion School In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Oxford Mill Ruin
Old Brewery In Preston
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Remembering Quadna Resort
District 48 School Near Delano
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Exploring Sandstone
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Little Falls Depot
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

