In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was founded in January 1897. The church...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Landmark Center In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Apartments
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Robbinsdale Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Townhomes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Bally Blacksmith Shop opened in 1911 when Sam Bally left his job at a sawmill to open his own...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Early settler and local banker Edson Smith built this French Second Empire style home for his...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Wasioja
Little Falls Depot
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Green Lake Mounds
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Cobden
Old Brewery In Preston
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Little Marais Inn
The Old School In Wolverton
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Oxford Mill Ruin
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Duluth Homestead Project
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Moving Old Hibbing
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Ottawa
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Le Sueur Theater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The End of the Line in Currie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Red Wing Iron Works
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Endion School In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Franconia
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Dotson
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Visiting Golden Gate
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Milford Monument
The Almelund Creamery
Finding The Past In Swatara
Florence Town Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Meyer School In St Augusta
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Sandstone
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Old Wadena
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hollywood Town Hall
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hanover Bridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Ruins of Sawyer School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Remembering Quadna Resort
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Endion Depot In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

