Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Twin Cities Area
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Apartments
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wilder Public Baths
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Townhomes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Robbinsdale Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Greater Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
In 1957, trucks loaded with prefabricated homes rolled along Highway 61 toward a new building site...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hanover Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Almelund Creamery
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring Sandstone
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Endion School In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Endion Depot In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Wasioja
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Oxford Mill Ruin
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hollywood Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Milford Monument
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Franconia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Cobden
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Little Marais Inn
The Le Sueur Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bend in the River Regional Park
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Old Brewery In Preston
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
District 48 School Near Delano
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Moderne New Ulm Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

