Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
In 1899, the Twin City Rapid Transit Company extended its reach of their streetcars to the...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Saint Paul Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Apartments
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Townhomes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Originally built as the second home of the First Swedish Baptist Church in 1910, the Temple Baptist...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
This gorgeous Second Empire style home in Hastings was built for William Thompson in 1880. Thompson...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring Sandstone
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Milford Monument
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Hollywood Town Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Wasioja
The Church of the Holy Cross
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome to Hanska
Lost Highway 61
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bend in the River Regional Park
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Remembering Quadna Resort
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Cobden
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Munger Terrace In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Finding The Past In Swatara
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Little Falls Depot
Oxford Mill Ruin
Endion Depot In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Duluth Homestead Project
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Red Wing Iron Works
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The End of the Line in Currie
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hanover Bridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Green Lake Mounds
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Almelund Creamery
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Franconia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Endion School In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Enter Marlon Brando
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

