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
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
District #28 School in Ramsey
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wilder Public Baths
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Apartments
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Greater Minnesota
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Church of the Holy Cross in Dundas is a Gothic-style church built in 1868. John S. Archibald of...
Historic Franconia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Endion School In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
District 6 School in New Sweden
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Ottawa
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Duluth Homestead Project
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The End of the Line in Currie
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Red Wing Iron Works
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Randall Cooperative Creamery
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Finding The Past In Swatara
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Moving Old Hibbing
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Old Brewery In Preston
Little Falls Depot
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Little Marais Inn
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Old Wadena
Florence Town Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome to Hanska
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Sandstone
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Milford Monument
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Wasioja
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Moderne New Ulm Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Le Sueur Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Jordan Brewery Complex
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Green Lake Mounds
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
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 Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul