Built in 1913, the Charles and Grace Parker House was designed by the nationally-prominent Prairie...
Twin Cities Area
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Townhomes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Saint Paul Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Greater Minnesota
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The George and Charlotte Crosby house is located just a few blocks east of downtown Duluth...
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...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Ottawa
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The End of the Line in Currie
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Milford Monument
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Cobden
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome to Hanska
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Oxford Mill Ruin
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Franconia
Green Lake Mounds
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moving Old Hibbing
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Remembering Quadna Resort
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Florence Town Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Red Wing Iron Works
The Duluth Homestead Project
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lost Highway 61
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Dotson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Endion School In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Little Falls Depot
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Old Brewery In Preston
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Jordan Brewery Complex
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Sandstone
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Wasioja
District 48 School Near Delano
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Moderne New Ulm Library
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...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
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 First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

