University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
Twin Cities Area
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Townhomes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The public library in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota was built in 1913 with a $10,000 grant from Andrew...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Planning for a new road for stagecoach travel westward from the Mississippi began in the winter of...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Franconia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Endion School In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Almelund Creamery
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Duluth Homestead Project
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Visiting Golden Gate
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood Town Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bend in the River Regional Park
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hanover Bridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Endion Depot In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Remembering Quadna Resort
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Milford Monument
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The End of the Line in Currie
Moving Old Hibbing
Florence Town Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Cobden
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Oxford Mill Ruin
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Sandstone
Green Lake Mounds
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Little Falls Depot
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
District 48 School Near Delano
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Wasioja
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Enter Marlon Brando
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Dotson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Red Wing Iron Works
Meyer School In St Augusta
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
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...

