The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Twin Cities Area
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George H. Christian was a manager at the Washburn-Crosby Company in Minneapolis who worked out a...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Apartments
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Townhomes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Saint Paul Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Endion School In Duluth
The Endion School in Duluth, Minnesota, was built in 1890. The architect who designed the three...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
In 1957, trucks loaded with prefabricated homes rolled along Highway 61 toward a new building site...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Wasioja
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Ottawa
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Florence Town Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The End of the Line in Currie
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
District 48 School Near Delano
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Little Falls Depot
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Meyer School In St Augusta
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
The Old School In Wolverton
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Visiting Golden Gate
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Franconia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Duluth Homestead Project
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lost Highway 61
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hollywood Town Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Moving Old Hibbing
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Endion Depot In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Milford Monument
Jordan Brewery Complex
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Sandstone
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Enter Marlon Brando
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Almelund Creamery
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Little Marais Inn
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

