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
District #28 School in Ramsey
The District #28 School was constructed in Ramsey in 1892 to replace a smaller, wood frame school...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Robbinsdale Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Eight Days in May Protests
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
In 1909, just eight years after this school was built in Sandstone, lightning struck. Sadly, the...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Wasioja
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Oxford Mill Ruin
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Florence Town Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Milford Monument
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Cobden
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Sandstone
The Duluth Homestead Project
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome to Hanska
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Moving Old Hibbing
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
District 48 School Near Delano
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Old Brewery In Preston
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Enter Marlon Brando
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Little Falls Depot
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Green Lake Mounds
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The End of the Line in Currie
Almond White and the Motley Castle
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hanover Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Ruins of Sawyer School
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Le Sueur Theater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Franconia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bend in the River Regional Park
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Moderne New Ulm Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

