Built between 1902 and 1904, this beautiful building on its shady lot served southeast Minneapolis...
Twin Cities Area
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Eight Days in May Protests
Landmark Center In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Townhomes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wilder Public Baths
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Greater Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
The Little Marais Inn
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Enter Marlon Brando
District 48 School Near Delano
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Wasioja
Hollywood Town Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Visiting Golden Gate
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Old Wadena
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Red Wing Iron Works
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
State Theater In Hutchinson
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Milford Monument
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bend in the River Regional Park
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Little Falls Depot
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Jordan Brewery Complex
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Exploring Ottawa
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Endion School In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Church of the Holy Cross
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Old School In Wolverton
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Dotson
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Remembering Quadna Resort
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Franconia
Hanover Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
District 6 School in New Sweden
Florence Town Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Old Brewery In Preston
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Sandstone
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...

