Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Twin Cities Area
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Robbinsdale Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Apartments
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Townhomes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Landmark Center In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry D. Huff was a land speculator who built a brick and stone Italian Villa-style house on a...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Old School In Wolverton
Little Falls Depot
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Meyer School In St Augusta
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bend in the River Regional Park
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Cobden
Red Wing Iron Works
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Moving Old Hibbing
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hollywood Town Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Historic Wasioja
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Enter Marlon Brando
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lost Highway 61
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Franconia
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Little Marais Inn
Remembering Quadna Resort
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
District 48 School Near Delano
The Milford Monument
Visiting Golden Gate
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Almelund Creamery
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Green Lake Mounds
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Old Brewery In Preston
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Ottawa
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Le Sueur Theater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Florence Town Hall
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

