Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Twin Cities Area
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Townhomes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Apartments
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Robbinsdale Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gates of Stonebridge
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wilder Public Baths
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Red Wing Iron Works
Old Brewery In Preston
Visiting Golden Gate
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Endion School In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Old School In Wolverton
Moderne New Ulm Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hanover Bridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
District 48 School Near Delano
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Little Marais Inn
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Cobden
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hollywood Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Little Falls Depot
The End of the Line in Currie
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Almelund Creamery
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome to Hanska
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Dotson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Milford Monument
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Le Sueur Theater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Endion Depot In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Green Lake Mounds
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Franconia
Exploring Sandstone
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

