The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
Twin Cities Area
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The historic Turnblad mansion was built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan Turnblad, his wife...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Robbinsdale Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Gates of Stonebridge
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
District 48 School Near Delano
It really hurts to see this old schoolhouse so neglected 😟 The Franklin Township (Minnesota)...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Franconia
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Le Sueur Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion School In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Enter Marlon Brando
Finding The Past In Swatara
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Old School In Wolverton
The Milford Monument
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Cobden
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The End of the Line in Currie
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Moderne New Ulm Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Wasioja
Old Brewery In Preston
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Ottawa
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Oxford Mill Ruin
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hanover Bridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Sandstone
Jordan Brewery Complex
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Old Wadena
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Duluth Homestead Project
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Bend in the River Regional Park
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Church of the Holy Cross
Endion Depot In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood Town Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
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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