Built in 1913, the Charles and Grace Parker House was designed by the nationally-prominent Prairie...
Twin Cities Area
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
For many at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus, May 9, 1972 started out like any other...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Townhomes
Robbinsdale Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wilder Public Baths
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
District #28 School in Ramsey
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Greater Minnesota
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Built in 1926, the New Ulm Company Service Station is the best remaining example in a series of...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George Neuwirth operated a popular bowling alley and bar throughout the 1930s and 1940s in New Ulm...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Cobden
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Red Wing Iron Works
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Old Wadena
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Visiting Golden Gate
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion Depot In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lost Highway 61
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 48 School Near Delano
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Little Falls Depot
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Ruins of Sawyer School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Le Sueur Theater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome to Hanska
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hollywood Town Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Moving Old Hibbing
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Ottawa
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Finding The Past In Swatara
Enter Marlon Brando
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Florence Town Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Wasioja
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
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...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

