In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
District #28 School in Ramsey
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Robbinsdale Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Jordan Brewery Complex
During the 1860s, Jordan had become an early industrial center in Scott County and brewing became...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Englanders who settled in the St Croix Valley were drawn there because of the thick, wild...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Franconia
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Cobden
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Le Sueur Theater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lost Highway 61
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Dotson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hollywood Town Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
District 48 School Near Delano
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Endion Depot In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Sandstone
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Moving Old Hibbing
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Duluth Homestead Project
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Old Wadena
Little Falls Depot
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Almelund Creamery
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Welcome to Hanska
Green Lake Mounds
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hanover Bridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Church of the Holy Cross
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Red Wing Iron Works
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Little Marais Inn
Old Brewery In Preston
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Milford Monument
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
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...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

