Constructed in 1897 for $13,000, the First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was designed...
Twin Cities Area
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The first pavilion was built on the shore of Lake Como in St. Paul in 1894. The wooden pavilion was...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Apartments
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Eight Days in May Protests
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Townhomes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Saint Paul Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gates of Stonebridge
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
This old stone chapel was built at the Sunrise Funeral Home and Cemetery in 1949. Located in...
Hollywood Town Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Moving Old Hibbing
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lost Highway 61
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Finding The Past In Swatara
Red Wing Iron Works
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Milford Monument
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hanover Bridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Enter Marlon Brando
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Ruins of Sawyer School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Jordan Brewery Complex
Old Brewery In Preston
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Sandstone
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Green Lake Mounds
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Oxford Mill Ruin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Florence Town Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
District 48 School Near Delano
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The End of the Line in Currie
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Little Falls Depot
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion School In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Le Sueur Theater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Wasioja
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
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 Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

