The St Paul Hotel has been the backbone of charm and elegance in downtown St Paul since it opened...
Twin Cities Area
The Saint Paul Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wilder Public Baths
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Eight Days in May Protests
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Townhomes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Adolph Biermann house in Rochester is the oldest documented structure in the Mayowood Historic...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Built in 1926, the New Ulm Company Service Station is the best remaining example in a series of...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Enter Marlon Brando
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
District 48 School Near Delano
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Sandstone
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Ottawa
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Milford Monument
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Oxford Mill Ruin
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Almelund Creamery
Green Lake Mounds
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Florence Town Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lost Highway 61
Moving Old Hibbing
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Duluth Homestead Project
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hanover Bridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Cobden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Incline Railway
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Dotson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Wasioja
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Le Sueur Theater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Little Marais Inn
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Old School In Wolverton
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome to Hanska
Jordan Brewery Complex
Finding The Past In Swatara
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Visiting Golden Gate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood Town Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
Endion School In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...

