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
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was founded in January 1897. The church...
Wilder Public Baths
The Saint Paul Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
District #28 School in Ramsey
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Robbinsdale Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Townhomes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Eight Days in May Protests
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
Lost Highway 61
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Jordan Brewery Complex
Finding The Past In Swatara
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Moderne New Ulm Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Little Marais Inn
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Dotson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Old Wadena
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Cobden
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Ottawa
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Franconia
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Sandstone
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Old Brewery In Preston
Little Falls Depot
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Milford Monument
The Old School In Wolverton
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Incline Railway
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Endion School In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Church of the Holy Cross
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome to Hanska
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Moving Old Hibbing
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Oxford Mill Ruin
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
District 48 School Near Delano
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Enter Marlon Brando
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Ruins of Sawyer School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Florence Town Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hanover Bridge
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

