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
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s Guardians of Health
The Washburn water tower sits on a hill in the heart of the Washburn Park (commonly known as...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Townhomes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Apartments
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Robbinsdale Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The West Bridge in Madelia, Minnesota, was built in 1908. It is the earliest remaining example of a...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Franconia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lost Highway 61
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Moving Old Hibbing
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome to Hanska
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Wasioja
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
District 6 School in New Sweden
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Endion School In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The End of the Line in Currie
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Le Sueur Theater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Ottawa
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Brewery In Preston
State Theater In Hutchinson
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Visiting Golden Gate
Hollywood Town Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Almelund Creamery
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Oxford Mill Ruin
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Milford Monument
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering Quadna Resort
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Endion Depot In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Cobden
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Enter Marlon Brando
The Old School In Wolverton
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
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 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...

