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 Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wilder Public Baths
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Townhomes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Greater Minnesota
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Beaver Bay is the oldest white settlement along the North Shore of Lake Superior. It was...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Le Sueur Theater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Old Wadena
Wandering Around The Toimi School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bend in the River Regional Park
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hanover Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Endion Depot In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Dotson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome to Hanska
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Wasioja
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Enter Marlon Brando
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Milford Monument
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Red Wing Iron Works
Finding The Past In Swatara
Moderne New Ulm Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Cobden
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lost Highway 61
Hollywood Town Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The End of the Line in Currie
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Little Marais Inn
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
State Theater In Hutchinson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Almelund Creamery
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Franconia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Sandstone
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Jordan Brewery Complex
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Oxford Mill Ruin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Ottawa
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
District 48 School Near Delano
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Old Brewery In Preston
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

