Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Twin Cities Area
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis was one of the rare mills in the city that had four finished...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wilder Public Baths
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Apartments
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Greater Minnesota
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Avenue, located on the east side of St. Cloud, became part of the Jefferson Highway system...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
In 1929, the Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge was established in Lanesboro, Minnesota. Membership...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Florence Town Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Milford Monument
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Moving Old Hibbing
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Cobden
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Church of the Holy Cross
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The End of the Line in Currie
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bend in the River Regional Park
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
District 48 School Near Delano
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Oxford Mill Ruin
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Red Wing Iron Works
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Little Marais Inn
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Visiting Golden Gate
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Remembering Quadna Resort
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Le Sueur Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hanover Bridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome To Old Wadena
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
District 6 School in New Sweden
Old Brewery In Preston
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome to Hanska
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Little Falls Depot
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hollywood Town Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

