Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Twin Cities Area
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Landmark Center In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Eight Days in May Protests
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Church of the Holy Cross in Dundas is a Gothic-style church built in 1868. John S. Archibald of...
Hanover Bridge
Hanover Bridge was constructed by the Morse Bridge Company of Youngstown, Ohio in 1885. The single...
Moderne New Ulm Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
District 6 School in New Sweden
Red Wing Iron Works
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Dotson
Old Brewery In Preston
Little Falls Depot
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hollywood Town Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Milford Monument
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Enter Marlon Brando
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Visiting Golden Gate
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
District 48 School Near Delano
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Old Wadena
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Green Lake Mounds
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
State Theater In Hutchinson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring Sandstone
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Cobden
Moving Old Hibbing
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Ottawa
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion School In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome to Hanska
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Almelund Creamery
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Franconia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lost Highway 61
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The End of the Line in Currie
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Meyer School In St Augusta
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Florence Town Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Old School In Wolverton
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Ruins of Sawyer School
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
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 First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

