In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
District #28 School in Ramsey
Robbinsdale Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Townhomes
Greater Minnesota
Jordan Brewery Complex
During the 1860s, Jordan had become an early industrial center in Scott County and brewing became...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Chisago County State Bank was built in Center City in 1915. In August 1925, more than 60...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Wasioja
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bend in the River Regional Park
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Red Wing Iron Works
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Cobden
Visiting Golden Gate
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Little Marais Inn
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Sandstone
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
State Theater In Hutchinson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Green Lake Mounds
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The End of the Line in Currie
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
District 6 School in New Sweden
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Church of the Holy Cross
District 48 School Near Delano
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hanover Bridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lost Highway 61
The Almelund Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Little Falls Depot
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Finding The Past In Swatara
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Dotson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Enter Marlon Brando
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Endion Depot In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Florence Town Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hollywood Town Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Meyer School In St Augusta
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

