Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Twin Cities Area
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Townhomes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Saint Paul Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Geldner Sawmill stands on a narrow strip of land that separates Lake Jefferson and German Lake...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Little Marais Inn
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Franconia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Dotson
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Almelund Creamery
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Enter Marlon Brando
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Cobden
Ruins of Sawyer School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Sandstone
Hollywood Town Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
Little Falls Depot
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Old Brewery In Preston
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Church of the Holy Cross
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Endion Depot In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Wasioja
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hanover Bridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Oxford Mill Ruin
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Finding The Past In Swatara
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
District 48 School Near Delano
Visiting Golden Gate
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Milford Monument
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The End of the Line in Currie
Green Lake Mounds
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Daniel Piper House in Medford
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
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 Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

