The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
Twin Cities Area
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Originally named the Palazzo, the Colonnade Hotel opened on St. Peter Street in Saint Paul in 1888...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wilder Public Baths
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gates of Stonebridge
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Robbinsdale Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Several buildings were constructed on 30 acres of lakefront property in Two Harbors in the 1920s to...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The District Number 50 school in Essig, Minnesota, opened in 1912. Children attend this one-room...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Wasioja
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Oxford Mill Ruin
Remembering Quadna Resort
District 48 School Near Delano
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Old School In Wolverton
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Little Marais Inn
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Almelund Creamery
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Red Wing Iron Works
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hollywood Town Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Sandstone
Little Falls Depot
Florence Town Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Green Lake Mounds
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome to Hanska
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Ottawa
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Franconia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The End of the Line in Currie
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Visiting Golden Gate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Enter Marlon Brando
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Moving Old Hibbing
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
District 6 School in New Sweden
Jordan Brewery Complex
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Le Sueur Theater
Endion School In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Old Wadena
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

