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
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Apartments
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
If you’ve been to the Mille Lacs area of Minnesota, there’s a good chance you’ve...
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lost Highway 61
The Old School In Wolverton
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Enter Marlon Brando
Hollywood Town Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Endion Depot In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome to Hanska
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Endion School In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Oxford Mill Ruin
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Ottawa
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Little Falls Depot
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bend in the River Regional Park
Visiting Golden Gate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Moving Old Hibbing
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hanover Bridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
District 48 School Near Delano
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Franconia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Remembering Quadna Resort
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Meyer School In St Augusta
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Florence Town Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Green Lake Mounds
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The End of the Line in Currie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Le Sueur Theater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
State Theater In Hutchinson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
The Duluth Homestead Project
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Finding The Past In Swatara
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

