When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
Twin Cities Area
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Horatio Alden Smith made the bulk of his fortune as the co-owner of the Smith and Wyman Sash and...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Townhomes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Robbinsdale Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Apartments
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
District #28 School in Ramsey
Greater Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Sandstone
Finding The Past In Swatara
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Endion School In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Little Falls Depot
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lost Highway 61
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Munger Terrace In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Almelund Creamery
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
District 48 School Near Delano
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Dotson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The End of the Line in Currie
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Meyer School In St Augusta
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Jordan Brewery Complex
Enter Marlon Brando
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Green Lake Mounds
Taylor House In Le Sueur
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Visiting Golden Gate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Ruins of Sawyer School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Old Wadena
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Franconia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Le Sueur Theater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Historic Wasioja
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome to Hanska
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
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...

