In 1899, the Twin City Rapid Transit Company extended its reach of their streetcars to the...
Twin Cities Area
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wilder Public Baths
It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Robbinsdale Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Oxford Mill was located on the bank of the Little Cannon River near Cannon Falls. When the mill...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Florence Town Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
The End of the Line in Currie
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Ottawa
Endion School In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Sandstone
The Little Marais Inn
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Old School In Wolverton
Hanover Bridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
State Theater In Hutchinson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Meyer School In St Augusta
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Wasioja
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Red Wing Iron Works
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome to Hanska
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bend in the River Regional Park
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Almelund Creamery
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Remembering Quadna Resort
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Ruins of Sawyer School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Franconia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Little Falls Depot
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Le Sueur Theater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Cobden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Old Brewery In Preston
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The New Ulm Company Service Station
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Dead Good Walks
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...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

