Names like Louis Comfort Tiffany and Gustav Stickley are well rooted in many American’s minds as...
Twin Cities Area
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of Food
Betty Crocker was born in a boardroom of The Washburn-Crosby Company of Minneapolis in 1921. A...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Townhomes
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Apartments
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Greater Minnesota
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
September 24, 1909 At 4:20 a.m., an off-duty worker at the Fergus Falls City Light Station woke up...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Florence Town Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Little Marais Inn
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Moderne New Ulm Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bend in the River Regional Park
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Franconia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Endion School In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Dotson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Wasioja
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lost Highway 61
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Old Brewery In Preston
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Ottawa
Remembering Quadna Resort
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Meyer School In St Augusta
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Enter Marlon Brando
Ruins of Sawyer School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Red Wing Iron Works
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hanover Bridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Milford Monument
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hollywood Town Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Finding The Past In Swatara
District 48 School Near Delano
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Old School In Wolverton
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Sandstone
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Almelund Creamery
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome To Old Wadena
Little Falls Depot
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Moving Old Hibbing
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

