In 1899, the Twin City Rapid Transit Company extended its reach of their streetcars to the...
Twin Cities Area
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
The District #28 School was constructed in Ramsey in 1892 to replace a smaller, wood frame school...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Apartments
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Robbinsdale Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Greater Minnesota
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Geldner Sawmill stands on a narrow strip of land that separates Lake Jefferson and German Lake...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Church of the Holy Cross
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Little Marais Inn
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Wasioja
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Little Falls Depot
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Florence Town Hall
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lost Highway 61
The End of the Line in Currie
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hollywood Town Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Visiting Golden Gate
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Franconia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Oxford Mill Ruin
Moving Old Hibbing
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Old School In Wolverton
Meyer School In St Augusta
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Remembering Quadna Resort
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome to Hanska
Bend in the River Regional Park
Moderne New Ulm Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Dotson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Almelund Creamery
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Endion Depot In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring Ottawa
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Cobden
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Red Wing Iron Works
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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...

