Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Twin Cities Area
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Originally named the Palazzo, the Colonnade Hotel opened on St. Peter Street in Saint Paul in 1888...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gates of Stonebridge
Women’s City Club In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Robbinsdale Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Apartments
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Not much has changed at this house in Duluth. It looks pretty much the same as it did when it was...
The Almelund Creamery
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood Town Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Florence Town Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lost Highway 61
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Moderne New Ulm Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome to Hanska
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Le Sueur Theater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 6 School in New Sweden
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Visiting Golden Gate
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Wasioja
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Remembering Quadna Resort
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Finding The Past In Swatara
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Sandstone
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Green Lake Mounds
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Milford Monument
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Moving Old Hibbing
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Red Wing Iron Works
Little Falls Depot
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Cobden
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
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...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...

