Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Eight Days in May Protests
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gates of Stonebridge
Robbinsdale Library
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Greater Minnesota
The Le Sueur Theater
The Le Sueur Theater on Main Street in Le Sueur, Minnesota, opened in 1884. The building was...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Shortly after midnight on November 28, 1905, the Crescent City dropped anchor in 90-feet of water...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hollywood Town Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Old Brewery In Preston
The End of the Line in Currie
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Red Wing Iron Works
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Sandstone
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Ruins of Sawyer School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Visiting Golden Gate
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lost Highway 61
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Moderne New Ulm Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Little Falls Depot
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Green Lake Mounds
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Wasioja
Moving Old Hibbing
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Old Wadena
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Little Marais Inn
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Franconia
Exploring Ottawa
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Old School In Wolverton
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hanover Bridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bend in the River Regional Park
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Endion School In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Cobden
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome to Hanska
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Enter Marlon Brando
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Almelund Creamery
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Finding The Past In Swatara
State Theater In Hutchinson
Meyer School In St Augusta
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
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...

