Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Twin Cities Area
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Constructed in 1897 for $13,000, the First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was designed...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Apartments
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Landmark Center In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Endion School In Duluth
The Endion School in Duluth, Minnesota, was built in 1890. The architect who designed the three...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A library was first established in Two Harbors, Minnesota in 1897. A group of citizens banded...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Ottawa
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Visiting Golden Gate
Finding The Past In Swatara
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Cobden
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Old Brewery In Preston
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Old Wadena
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Franconia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Green Lake Mounds
Meyer School In St Augusta
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Sandstone
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The End of the Line in Currie
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hanover Bridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Old School In Wolverton
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Wasioja
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Florence Town Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome to Hanska
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lost Highway 61
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Milford Monument
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Red Wing Iron Works
Enter Marlon Brando
The Le Sueur Theater
Little Falls Depot
Bend in the River Regional Park
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Dotson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Moving Old Hibbing
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

