Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Twin Cities Area
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
Robbinsdale Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Saint Paul Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Apartments
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Greater Minnesota
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
This gorgeous Second Empire style home in Hastings was built for William Thompson in 1880. Thompson...
Moderne New Ulm Library
In 1936, a sleek, Moderne-style public library was built in New Ulm, Minnesota. The land for the...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Sandstone
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Enter Marlon Brando
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Red Wing Iron Works
The Little Marais Inn
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome to Hanska
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Little Falls Depot
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Cobden
Moving Old Hibbing
District 48 School Near Delano
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Visiting Golden Gate
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Church of the Holy Cross
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Franconia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Ruins of Sawyer School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Almelund Creamery
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Milford Monument
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Duluth Homestead Project
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Florence Town Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Old Brewery In Preston
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Dotson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Le Sueur Theater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lost Highway 61
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Ottawa
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The End of the Line in Currie
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
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...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

