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