The Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis was one of the rare mills in the city that had four finished...
Twin Cities Area
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Originally named the Palazzo, the Colonnade Hotel opened on St. Peter Street in Saint Paul in 1888...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Robbinsdale Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gates of Stonebridge
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Eight Days in May Protests
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
For several years, Tenney held the distinction of being Minnesota’s smallest town. The 2010 census...
Moderne New Ulm Library
In 1936, a sleek, Moderne-style public library was built in New Ulm, Minnesota. The land for the...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Endion School In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
State Theater In Hutchinson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Enter Marlon Brando
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Wasioja
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Dotson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Cobden
Endion Depot In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Little Marais Inn
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hollywood Town Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Florence Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Little Falls Depot
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Sandstone
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lost Highway 61
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Red Wing Iron Works
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Old Brewery In Preston
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Ottawa
The Almelund Creamery
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hanover Bridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Old School In Wolverton
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Franconia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Milford Monument
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
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...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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 Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

