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
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Apartments
Robbinsdale Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Eight Days in May Protests
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Townhomes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Greater Minnesota
Moderne New Ulm Library
In 1936, a sleek, Moderne-style public library was built in New Ulm, Minnesota. The land for the...
Remembering Quadna Resort
When I arrived at the Quadna Resort, I felt like I’d stepped back in time. Although the lodge...
Little Falls Depot
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Ruins of Sawyer School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Finding The Past In Swatara
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Green Lake Mounds
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Franconia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Brewery In Preston
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion Depot In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Enter Marlon Brando
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Dotson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bend in the River Regional Park
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Le Sueur Theater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hanover Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Endion School In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Wasioja
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lost Highway 61
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome to Hanska
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Little Marais Inn
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Cobden
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
District 6 School in New Sweden
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Sandstone
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

