Built between 1902 and 1904, this beautiful building on its shady lot served southeast Minneapolis...
Twin Cities Area
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George H. Christian was a manager at the Washburn-Crosby Company in Minneapolis who worked out a...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Landmark Center In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Robbinsdale Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Most of us wouldn’t consider a 13,000 square foot mansion situated on a six-acre wooded lot with...
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...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Milford Monument
The Duluth Homestead Project
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Wasioja
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
District 48 School Near Delano
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Almelund Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Florence Town Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Cobden
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Red Wing Iron Works
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Ottawa
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Visiting Golden Gate
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion School In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Moving Old Hibbing
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Sandstone
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Randall Cooperative Creamery
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Le Sueur Theater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Dotson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bend in the River Regional Park
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Church of the Holy Cross
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Moderne New Ulm Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Little Falls Depot
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hanover Bridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Green Lake Mounds
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Finding The Past In Swatara
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome to Hanska
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hollywood Town Hall
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
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