Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Twin Cities Area
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
At the turn of the twentieth century, newspapers and magazines touted quack cures and healing cults...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Landmark Center In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Washington County District No. 2 was formed in 1857 for the growing number of children moving into...
Hanover Bridge
Hanover Bridge was constructed by the Morse Bridge Company of Youngstown, Ohio in 1885. The single...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Old Wadena
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Dotson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Red Wing Iron Works
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Finding The Past In Swatara
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Cobden
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Le Sueur Theater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Enter Marlon Brando
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Historic Franconia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Sandstone
Remembering Quadna Resort
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Meyer School In St Augusta
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Little Falls Depot
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 48 School Near Delano
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The End of the Line in Currie
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Moving Old Hibbing
The Milford Monument
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Almelund Creamery
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Oxford Mill Ruin
Ruins of Sawyer School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Old School In Wolverton
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bend in the River Regional Park
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Little Marais Inn
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Randall Cooperative Creamery
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Ottawa
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

