This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
Twin Cities Area
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Robbinsdale Library
The Robbinsdale Library opened its doors for the first time on January 4, 1926, thanks to the...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Apartments
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wilder Public Baths
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Townhomes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Saint Paul Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Red Wing Iron Works
Red Wing Iron Works was founded in 1866 by brothers Benjamin and Daniel Densmore. They found a...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State Hospital
In 1873, the State of Minnesota was looking for a way to house an increasingly problematic group of...
Exploring Sandstone
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Wasioja
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Old School In Wolverton
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Hollywood Town Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Almelund Creamery
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome to Hanska
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Endion School In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Moving Old Hibbing
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Finding The Past In Swatara
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Milford Monument
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Franconia
Florence Town Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Little Falls Depot
Hanover Bridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Jordan Brewery Complex
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
District 48 School Near Delano
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The End of the Line in Currie
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Cobden
Remembering Quadna Resort
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
State Theater In Hutchinson
Green Lake Mounds
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bend in the River Regional Park
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Meyer School In St Augusta
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lost Highway 61
Almond White and the Motley Castle
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Little Marais Inn
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
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...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
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...

