University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
Twin Cities Area
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Constructed in 1897 for $13,000, the First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was designed...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Townhomes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Women’s City Club In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Apartments
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Greater Minnesota
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Most of us wouldn’t consider a 13,000 square foot mansion situated on a six-acre wooded lot with...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
There are quite a few examples of the gorgeous Eastlake-style architecture in Minnesota, but this...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Little Falls Depot
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hanover Bridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hollywood Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Florence Town Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
The Little Marais Inn
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Green Lake Mounds
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Oxford Mill Ruin
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Moving Old Hibbing
Endion School In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Old Brewery In Preston
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moderne New Ulm Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Milford Monument
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome to Hanska
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Wasioja
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Cobden
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Old School In Wolverton
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Meyer School In St Augusta
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The End of the Line in Currie
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
The Le Sueur Theater
The Almelund Creamery
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Church of the Holy Cross
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
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...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
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 Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

