Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Twin Cities Area
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Saint Paul Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
District #28 School in Ramsey
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wilder Public Baths
Greater Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Visiting Golden Gate
A post office was first established in Golden Gate, Minnesota, in 1868. The little town sprang up...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Remembering Quadna Resort
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Old Brewery In Preston
District 48 School Near Delano
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Franconia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Dotson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Wasioja
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hanover Bridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Ottawa
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lundring Service Station in Canby
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Sandstone
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Endion Depot In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Enter Marlon Brando
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Almelund Creamery
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Florence Town Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Ruins of Sawyer School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Milford Monument
Finding The Past In Swatara
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Church of the Holy Cross
Little Falls Depot
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Endion School In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

