St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
Twin Cities Area
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Townhomes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Robbinsdale Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Hanover Bridge
Hanover Bridge was constructed by the Morse Bridge Company of Youngstown, Ohio in 1885. The single...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hollywood Town Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Ottawa
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Endion Depot In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lost Highway 61
Lundring Service Station in Canby
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Florence Town Hall
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Enter Marlon Brando
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Oxford Mill Ruin
The End of the Line in Currie
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Sandstone
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Moving Old Hibbing
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Little Marais Inn
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Visiting Golden Gate
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
District 6 School in New Sweden
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Almelund Creamery
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Dotson
Endion School In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Franconia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
The Milford Monument
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome to Hanska
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Green Lake Mounds
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Red Wing Iron Works
The Old School In Wolverton
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Le Sueur Theater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Ruins of Sawyer School
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

