This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
Twin Cities Area
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wilder Public Baths
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gates of Stonebridge
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Robbinsdale Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Greater Minnesota
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Minnesota Home School for Girls was established by the state legislature in 1907 as a...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Park Terrace was an opulent building of Victorian townhouses located on a steep hill just off of...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood Town Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
The Almelund Creamery
The Old School In Wolverton
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Wasioja
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Ottawa
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Endion Depot In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome to Hanska
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lost Highway 61
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
District 48 School Near Delano
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
District 6 School in New Sweden
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Moderne New Ulm Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Remembering Quadna Resort
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Le Sueur Theater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Church of the Holy Cross
Visiting Golden Gate
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Cobden
Little Falls Depot
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Milford Monument
Historic Franconia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Duluth Homestead Project
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Sandstone
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Dotson
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Moving Old Hibbing
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Enter Marlon Brando
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Meyer School In St Augusta
Florence Town Hall
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Little Marais Inn
Endion School In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bend in the River Regional Park
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Old Wadena
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

