If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
Twin Cities Area
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wilder Public Baths
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gates of Stonebridge
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Apartments
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Greater Minnesota
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lost Highway 61
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Le Sueur Theater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Almelund Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Visiting Golden Gate
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Endion School In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Milford Monument
The Little Marais Inn
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Finding The Past In Swatara
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Old Brewery In Preston
The Church of the Holy Cross
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Wasioja
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
District 48 School Near Delano
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Florence Town Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Ottawa
District 6 School in New Sweden
The End of the Line in Currie
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Sandstone
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Dotson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hanover Bridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Red Wing Iron Works
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Little Falls Depot
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Old Wadena
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Franconia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome to Hanska
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Old School In Wolverton
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Endion Depot In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Meyer School In St Augusta
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
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...

