One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
Twin Cities Area
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wilder Public Baths
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Apartments
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Greater Minnesota
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
After one hundred and twenty years, the mystery of what happened to Clara Ober between the evening...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Enter Marlon Brando
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hanover Bridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Wasioja
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Red Wing Iron Works
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Green Lake Mounds
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Ottawa
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Almelund Creamery
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Old Brewery In Preston
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lost Highway 61
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Endion School In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Duluth Homestead Project
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The End of the Line in Currie
District 6 School in New Sweden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Jordan Brewery Complex
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Milford Monument
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Dotson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Endion Depot In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Finding The Past In Swatara
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome to Hanska
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Franconia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Little Falls Depot
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Meyer School In St Augusta
District 48 School Near Delano
The Le Sueur Theater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Old School In Wolverton
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
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...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

