St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
Twin Cities Area
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
At the turn of the twentieth century, newspapers and magazines touted quack cures and healing cults...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Townhomes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gates of Stonebridge
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Apartments
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Robbinsdale Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Greater Minnesota
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Scottish immigrant James G Craigie settled in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, along with his wife...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Red Wing Iron Works
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Visiting Golden Gate
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hollywood Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Le Sueur Theater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Ottawa
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Lost Highway 61
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Oxford Mill Ruin
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Franconia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Milford Monument
Florence Town Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Sandstone
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jordan Brewery Complex
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome to Hanska
The Almelund Creamery
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
State Theater In Hutchinson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Wasioja
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Little Marais Inn
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The End of the Line in Currie
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Old Wadena
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Cobden
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
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...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul