Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Twin Cities Area
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
At the turn of the twentieth century, newspapers and magazines touted quack cures and healing cults...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Apartments
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Robbinsdale Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Townhomes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Landmark Center In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
District #28 School in Ramsey
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wilder Public Baths
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Most of us wouldn’t consider a 13,000 square foot mansion situated on a six-acre wooded lot with...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Moving Old Hibbing
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Florence Town Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Green Lake Mounds
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Cobden
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Sandstone
Hollywood Town Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Old Brewery In Preston
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bend in the River Regional Park
Oxford Mill Ruin
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Ruins of Sawyer School
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Old School In Wolverton
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Wasioja
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Enter Marlon Brando
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hanover Bridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Meyer School In St Augusta
The End of the Line in Currie
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Dotson
The Almelund Creamery
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Finding The Past In Swatara
The New Ulm Company Service Station
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Ottawa
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Franconia
Welcome to Hanska
The Milford Monument
State Theater In Hutchinson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Visiting Golden Gate
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Little Falls Depot
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

