The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
Twin Cities Area
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
Robbinsdale Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Saint Paul Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
I saw this pretty old farmhouse streak by my window as I was driving on I-35 and knew right away...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Old Brewery In Preston
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion Depot In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood Town Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Little Falls Depot
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Almelund Creamery
Red Wing Iron Works
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome to Hanska
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moving Old Hibbing
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Jordan Brewery Complex
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Cobden
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Sandstone
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Meyer School In St Augusta
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The End of the Line in Currie
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Green Lake Mounds
Hanover Bridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Old Wadena
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Endion School In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Wasioja
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
District 48 School Near Delano
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bend in the River Regional Park
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lost Highway 61
Almond White and the Motley Castle
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Le Sueur Theater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Franconia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Old School In Wolverton
Florence Town Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

