In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was founded in January 1897. The church...
The Swinford Apartments
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
District #28 School in Ramsey
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Sandstone
The city of Sandstone, Minnesota, was platted and incorporated in 1887. The area was a major hub...
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Dotson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Almelund Creamery
Jordan Brewery Complex
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Green Lake Mounds
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Old Brewery In Preston
Meyer School In St Augusta
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Hanover Bridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Florence Town Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Wasioja
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Visiting Golden Gate
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Remembering Quadna Resort
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lost Highway 61
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Endion School In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Cobden
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
State Theater In Hutchinson
Red Wing Iron Works
Little Falls Depot
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Ruins of Sawyer School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Oxford Mill Ruin
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

