When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
Twin Cities Area
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Women’s City Club In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Townhomes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Robbinsdale Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Apartments
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George Neuwirth operated a popular bowling alley and bar throughout the 1930s and 1940s in New Ulm...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Shortly after midnight on November 28, 1905, the Crescent City dropped anchor in 90-feet of water...
Lost Highway 61
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Little Marais Inn
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Green Lake Mounds
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
District 6 School in New Sweden
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Endion Depot In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Almelund Creamery
The Milford Monument
Remembering Quadna Resort
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Franconia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Old School In Wolverton
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hanover Bridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Sandstone
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Church of the Holy Cross
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Ottawa
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Hanska
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Little Falls Depot
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome To Cobden
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Moving Old Hibbing
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Meyer School In St Augusta
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Visiting Golden Gate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Le Sueur Theater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Old Brewery In Preston
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
District 48 School Near Delano
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
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...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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 First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

