The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
Twin Cities Area
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wilder Public Baths
It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gates of Stonebridge
Landmark Center In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Apartments
Robbinsdale Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Greater Minnesota
Little Falls Depot
Construction started on the railroad depot in Little Falls in 1899. It was designed by Cass Gilbert...
Meyer School In St Augusta
The original District 35 (Meyer) school was a log structure built around 1868. As the population of...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Moderne New Ulm Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Sandstone
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Enter Marlon Brando
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Wasioja
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lost Highway 61
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Moving Old Hibbing
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The End of the Line in Currie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome to Hanska
Old Brewery In Preston
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
District 48 School Near Delano
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Dotson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Red Wing Iron Works
Oxford Mill Ruin
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Little Marais Inn
Hanover Bridge
The Almelund Creamery
The Milford Monument
Bend in the River Regional Park
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
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...

