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 End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
In 1899, the Twin City Rapid Transit Company extended its reach of their streetcars to the...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wilder Public Baths
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Robbinsdale Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Englanders who settled in the St Croix Valley were drawn there because of the thick, wild...
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Duluth Homestead Project, also known as the Jackson Project, began under the United States...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Almelund Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Little Marais Inn
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Wasioja
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Endion School In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
District 6 School in New Sweden
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Franconia
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Florence Town Hall
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Sandstone
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Milford Monument
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Le Sueur Theater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Little Falls Depot
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome to Hanska
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Endion Depot In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hollywood Town Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Finding The Past In Swatara
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The End of the Line in Currie
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Cobden
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Oxford Mill Ruin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Enter Marlon Brando
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 48 School Near Delano
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Brewery In Preston
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Moving Old Hibbing
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

