This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
Twin Cities Area
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Lowry Hotel opened in 1927 and was 12 floors of pure glamour. An addition was made in 1930 to...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Robbinsdale Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wilder Public Baths
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s Town
When Samuel Pandolfo arrived in St. Cloud in 1917, he dreamed of building an automobile empire that...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Pine Tree Lumber Company was established in Little Falls in 1890. Located on the banks of the...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Visiting Golden Gate
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Old Wadena
District 48 School Near Delano
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Little Falls Depot
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Moving Old Hibbing
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The End of the Line in Currie
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Almelund Creamery
Endion School In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Dotson
The Old School In Wolverton
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome to Hanska
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Moderne New Ulm Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Red Wing Iron Works
Endion Depot In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Le Sueur Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bend in the River Regional Park
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hollywood Town Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Ottawa
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Duluth Homestead Project
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Franconia
The Milford Monument
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Little Marais Inn
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Wasioja
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Jordan Brewery Complex
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Enter Marlon Brando
Lost Highway 61
Finding The Past In Swatara
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

