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

