Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Twin Cities Area
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Wilder Public Baths
It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Apartments
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Robbinsdale Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Geldner Sawmill stands on a narrow strip of land that separates Lake Jefferson and German Lake...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Endion School In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Little Falls Depot
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Sandstone
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hollywood Town Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
State Theater In Hutchinson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome to Hanska
Enter Marlon Brando
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Le Sueur Theater
Moving Old Hibbing
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Old Wadena
District 48 School Near Delano
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lost Highway 61
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Franconia
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hanover Bridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Little Marais Inn
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Dotson
Florence Town Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Ottawa
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Ruins of Sawyer School
Old Brewery In Preston
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Wasioja
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Almelund Creamery
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
District 6 School in New Sweden
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge 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...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

