Built between 1902 and 1904, this beautiful building on its shady lot served southeast Minneapolis...
Twin Cities Area
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Townhomes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Apartments
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Greater Minnesota
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pennsylvania-native Joseph Renshaw Brown arrived in Minnesota at the age of 14 with the Army. He...
Historic Wasioja
Wasioja, Minnesota, was a thriving community in the 1850s and 1860s. The village was settled in...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Oxford Mill Ruin
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Franconia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Dotson
Lost Highway 61
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Endion Depot In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Duluth Homestead Project
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Milford Monument
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Jordan Brewery Complex
Endion School In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Enter Marlon Brando
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Moving Old Hibbing
The Almelund Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Little Falls Depot
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Sandstone
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Little Marais Inn
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
District 6 School in New Sweden
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hanover Bridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Green Lake Mounds
The Old School In Wolverton
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
District 48 School Near Delano
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
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?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

