If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
Twin Cities Area
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Eight Days in May Protests
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Townhomes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wilder Public Baths
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Apartments
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
District #28 School in Ramsey
Greater Minnesota
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Washington County District No. 2 was formed in 1857 for the growing number of children moving into...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Shortly after midnight on November 28, 1905, the Crescent City dropped anchor in 90-feet of water...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Florence Town Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Old Wadena
Green Lake Mounds
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bend in the River Regional Park
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome to Hanska
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Wasioja
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Moving Old Hibbing
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Sandstone
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Cobden
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Endion Depot In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Oxford Mill Ruin
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Old Brewery In Preston
Almond White and the Motley Castle
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Little Falls Depot
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lost Highway 61
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hanover Bridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Enter Marlon Brando
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood Town Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Endion School In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The End of the Line in Currie
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Milford Monument
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Old School In Wolverton
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Ottawa
Visiting Golden Gate
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

