This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
Twin Cities Area
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Saint Paul Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Apartments
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Townhomes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Greater Minnesota
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
After a devastating forest fire obliterated the villages of Finlayson, Hinckley, Miller, Mission...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Almelund Creamery
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Old School In Wolverton
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lost Highway 61
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Ottawa
The Little Marais Inn
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Franconia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The End of the Line in Currie
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Moving Old Hibbing
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Munger Terrace In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Enter Marlon Brando
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Florence Town Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Cobden
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Endion School In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
The Church of the Holy Cross
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Dotson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Little Falls Depot
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

