The historic Turnblad mansion was built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan Turnblad, his wife...
Twin Cities Area
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
In March 1963, the Twin Cities were rocked by a shocking and brutal crime – the murder of Carol...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Robbinsdale Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Townhomes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Greater Minnesota
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry D. Huff was a land speculator who built a brick and stone Italian Villa-style house on a...
Welcome To Cobden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Little Marais Inn
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Florence Town Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Remembering Quadna Resort
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Old Wadena
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lost Highway 61
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Ottawa
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Milford Monument
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Sandstone
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome to Hanska
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hanover Bridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
District 6 School in New Sweden
Endion School In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Green Lake Mounds
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bend in the River Regional Park
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Finding The Past In Swatara
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Duluth Homestead Project
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Old School In Wolverton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Meyer School In St Augusta
The End of the Line in Currie
Visiting Golden Gate
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
The Almelund Creamery
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...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
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...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City