The Germania Life Insurance Building was built in 1889 at Fourth Street and Minnesota in downtown...
Twin Cities Area
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance Building In...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Apartments
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Townhomes
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Greater Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
Exploring Sandstone
The city of Sandstone, Minnesota, was platted and incorporated in 1887. The area was a major hub...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Remembering Quadna Resort
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Le Sueur Theater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Ruins of Sawyer School
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Dotson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hanover Bridge
Endion School In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Daniel Piper House in Medford
State Theater In Hutchinson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Oxford Mill Ruin
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hollywood Town Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Old School In Wolverton
Finding The Past In Swatara
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Enter Marlon Brando
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Meyer School In St Augusta
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Cobden
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Duluth Homestead Project
Moving Old Hibbing
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Florence Town Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lost Highway 61
Bend in the River Regional Park
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Ottawa
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Green Lake Mounds
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Incline Railway
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Little Marais Inn
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Little Falls Depot
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome to Hanska
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Milford Monument
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Old Wadena
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

