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
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Apartments
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Robbinsdale Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wilder Public Baths
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Townhomes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The District Number 50 school in Essig, Minnesota, opened in 1912. Children attend this one-room...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome to Hanska
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hanover Bridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Milford Monument
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Duluth Homestead Project
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Ruins of Sawyer School
Finding The Past In Swatara
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The End of the Line in Currie
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Wasioja
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Little Falls Depot
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Moving Old Hibbing
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Little Marais Inn
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Oxford Mill Ruin
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Franconia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Florence Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring Sandstone
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Ottawa
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome To Old Wadena
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown