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
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Saint Paul Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
You can’t drive through Zumbrota, Minnesota, without stopping at the covered bridge. It’s located...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Moving Old Hibbing
Red Wing Iron Works
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Milford Monument
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Sandstone
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Finding The Past In Swatara
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Enter Marlon Brando
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Old Brewery In Preston
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Old School In Wolverton
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Franconia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
State Theater In Hutchinson
Little Falls Depot
Green Lake Mounds
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Florence Town Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hollywood Town Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Wasioja
The End of the Line in Currie
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Ottawa
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
District 48 School Near Delano
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Visiting Golden Gate
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hanover Bridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome to Hanska
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Dotson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bend in the River Regional Park
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Ruins of Sawyer School
Endion School In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Moderne New Ulm Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Little Marais Inn
The Almelund Creamery
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Cobden
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital 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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
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...

