As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
Twin Cities Area
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wilder Public Baths
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Townhomes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Orpheum Theater in Duluth, Minnesota, was built on the old Temple Opera House site. The opera...
The Milford Monument
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Old School In Wolverton
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome to Hanska
Visiting Golden Gate
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Finding The Past In Swatara
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Florence Town Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Moderne New Ulm Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Old Brewery In Preston
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Oxford Mill Ruin
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Cobden
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Endion School In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Sandstone
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Wasioja
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Almelund Creamery
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Franconia
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Hollywood Town Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Little Marais Inn
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Dotson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The End of the Line in Currie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion Depot In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hanover Bridge
Green Lake Mounds
State Theater In Hutchinson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
District 6 School in New Sweden
Moving Old Hibbing
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

