Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the stateโs empire builders, St. Paulโs elite built their...
Twin Cities Area
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Apartments
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Townhomes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Eight Days in May Protests
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Meyer School In St Augusta
The original District 35 (Meyer) school was a log structure built around 1868. As the population of...
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Oxford Mill was located on the bank of the Little Cannon River near Cannon Falls. When the mill...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The End of the Line in Currie
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bend in the River Regional Park
Endion School In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Moving Old Hibbing
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
The Almelund Creamery
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome to Hanska
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Wasioja
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Hanover Bridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Cobden
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Old School In Wolverton
Visiting Golden Gate
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Little Marais Inn
The Duluth Homestead Project
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Franconia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Ottawa
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Little Falls Depot
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Sandstone
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Old Brewery In Preston
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who donโt...

