Miller Vocational High School opened in Minneapolis in 1932. The school was named after Mary...
Twin Cities Area
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis was one of the rare mills in the city that had four finished...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
District #28 School in Ramsey
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Robbinsdale Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wilder Public Baths
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
I saw this pretty old farmhouse streak by my window as I was driving on I-35 and knew right away...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Red Wing Iron Works
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Taylor House In Le Sueur
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Franconia
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Green Lake Mounds
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Moderne New Ulm Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Endion School In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Oxford Mill Ruin
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Dotson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Remembering Quadna Resort
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Old School In Wolverton
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Cobden
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Little Falls Depot
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Almelund Creamery
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
District 6 School in New Sweden
Meyer School In St Augusta
Finding The Past In Swatara
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Ottawa
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Visiting Golden Gate
The Le Sueur Theater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lost Highway 61
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hanover Bridge
The Little Marais Inn
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Old Brewery In Preston
Florence Town Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Enter Marlon Brando
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
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...

