This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
Twin Cities Area
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
It may have been luck that spared the Colonnade Hotel the same fate as so many other old downtown...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Robbinsdale Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gates of Stonebridge
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Green Lake Mounds
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Franconia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Ottawa
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The End of the Line in Currie
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lost Highway 61
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Remembering Quadna Resort
Enter Marlon Brando
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Visiting Golden Gate
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Little Marais Inn
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Wasioja
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Red Wing Iron Works
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Florence Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Endion School In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Moving Old Hibbing
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Milford Monument
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hanover Bridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Almelund Creamery
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Oxford Mill Ruin
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Old Wadena
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Le Sueur Theater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Duluth Homestead Project
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...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

