When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
Twin Cities Area
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Apartments
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Greater Minnesota
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Planning for a new road for stagecoach travel westward from the Mississippi began in the winter of...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The public library in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota was built in 1913 with a $10,000 grant from Andrew...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Milford Monument
Old Brewery In Preston
Endion Depot In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Cobden
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Visiting Golden Gate
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
District 6 School in New Sweden
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bend in the River Regional Park
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Red Wing Iron Works
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Church of the Holy Cross
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
District 48 School Near Delano
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Le Sueur Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Franconia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lost Highway 61
Historic Wasioja
Welcome to Hanska
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Green Lake Mounds
The Old School In Wolverton
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Dotson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Ottawa
Little Falls Depot
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Sandstone
Endion School In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Old Wadena
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Moderne New Ulm Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The End of the Line in Currie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Duluth Homestead Project
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hollywood Town Hall
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

