One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
Twin Cities Area
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Townhomes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Landmark Center In St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Visiting Golden Gate
A post office was first established in Golden Gate, Minnesota, in 1868. The little town sprang up...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome to Hanska
Old Brewery In Preston
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Milford Monument
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Remembering Quadna Resort
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Green Lake Mounds
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hanover Bridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Florence Town Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Little Marais Inn
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Duluth Homestead Project
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Old Wadena
Moderne New Ulm Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Church of the Holy Cross
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Dotson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Jordan Brewery Complex
Meyer School In St Augusta
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Finding The Past In Swatara
Enter Marlon Brando
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Wasioja
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Little Falls Depot
Endion School In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Franconia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Old School In Wolverton
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Le Sueur Theater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
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...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

