Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Twin Cities Area
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Lustron homes along Nicollet Avenue near 50th Street S in Minneapolis are among nearly 2,500 of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Landmark Center In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wilder Public Baths
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Greater Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The West Bridge in Madelia, Minnesota, was built in 1908. It is the earliest remaining example of a...
Hollywood Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Finding The Past In Swatara
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Moderne New Ulm Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Ottawa
The Old School In Wolverton
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Little Falls Depot
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Wasioja
Visiting Golden Gate
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Milford Monument
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
State Theater In Hutchinson
Endion Depot In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Little Marais Inn
Florence Town Hall
Hanover Bridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Old Wadena
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Le Sueur Theater
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Enter Marlon Brando
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Franconia
Oxford Mill Ruin
District 48 School Near Delano
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Cobden
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Red Wing Iron Works
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Remembering Quadna Resort
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Dotson
Lost Highway 61
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

