When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
Twin Cities Area
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Robbinsdale Library
The Robbinsdale Library opened its doors for the first time on January 4, 1926, thanks to the...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wilder Public Baths
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gates of Stonebridge
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
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...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
Meyer School In St Augusta
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Milford Monument
Bend in the River Regional Park
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Little Marais Inn
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Sandstone
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Franconia
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Enter Marlon Brando
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Ottawa
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Ruins of Sawyer School
State Theater In Hutchinson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Wasioja
The Old School In Wolverton
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Almelund Creamery
Visiting Golden Gate
Green Lake Mounds
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Red Wing Iron Works
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome to Hanska
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lost Highway 61
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
District 48 School Near Delano
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Oxford Mill Ruin
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

