If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
Twin Cities Area
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
It may have been luck that spared the Colonnade Hotel the same fate as so many other old downtown...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Apartments
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Robbinsdale Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wilder Public Baths
Greater Minnesota
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Ok, stick with me here. Can you remember how your elementary school smelled? I can. Vividly. A hint...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Most of us wouldn’t consider a 13,000 square foot mansion situated on a six-acre wooded lot with...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The End of the Line in Currie
Remembering Quadna Resort
Green Lake Mounds
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lundring Service Station in Canby
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Sandstone
Florence Town Hall
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Wasioja
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Endion School In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Jordan Brewery Complex
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Visiting Golden Gate
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Milford Monument
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Franconia
The Little Marais Inn
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Ottawa
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Almelund Creamery
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moving Old Hibbing
Little Falls Depot
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Ruins of Sawyer School
District 6 School in New Sweden
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Old Wadena
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Dotson
Enter Marlon Brando
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Old Brewery In Preston
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome to Hanska
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lost Highway 61
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Le Sueur Theater
Hanover Bridge
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
District 48 School Near Delano
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Cobden
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Old School In Wolverton
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
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...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

