Harry F. Legg and his wife Dora were the owners of a jewelry store in downtown Minneapolis in the...
Twin Cities Area
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Robbinsdale Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Apartments
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Townhomes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Vermont-native Almond A. White came to Minnesota after the Civil War and settled in Brainerd for a...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Florence Town Hall
The Almelund Creamery
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Enter Marlon Brando
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
District 6 School in New Sweden
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lost Highway 61
Lincoln Park In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Cobden
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Moving Old Hibbing
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hanover Bridge
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Little Marais Inn
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Sandstone
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Le Sueur Theater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Ottawa
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The End of the Line in Currie
Visiting Golden Gate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
District 48 School Near Delano
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Franconia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome to Hanska
Endion School In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Old School In Wolverton
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Red Wing Iron Works
Remembering Quadna Resort
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

