In 1899, the Twin City Rapid Transit Company extended its reach of their streetcars to the...
Twin Cities Area
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Apartments
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Saint Paul Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Robbinsdale Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Landmark Center In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
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...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Harry A. Subilia was an Italian immigrant who opened the first distillery in New Ulm, Minnesota. He...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Dotson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The End of the Line in Currie
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Ruins of Sawyer School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion School In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Milford Monument
The Le Sueur Theater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Remembering Quadna Resort
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Old Brewery In Preston
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Sandstone
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hanover Bridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Moderne New Ulm Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
District 48 School Near Delano
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lost Highway 61
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Meyer School In St Augusta
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
State Theater In Hutchinson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Little Marais Inn
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Enter Marlon Brando
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Franconia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Green Lake Mounds
Bend in the River Regional Park
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
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...
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
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

