As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
Twin Cities Area
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was founded in January 1897. The church...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Saint Paul Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Apartments
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Greater Minnesota
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Washington County District No. 2 was formed in 1857 for the growing number of children moving into...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Built in 1898, the West Riverside School was originally known as District #38 School. Isanti County...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Ottawa
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
State Theater In Hutchinson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Florence Town Hall
Endion School In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The End of the Line in Currie
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Wasioja
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Moving Old Hibbing
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Moderne New Ulm Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Almond White and the Motley Castle
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
District 6 School in New Sweden
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hanover Bridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Almelund Creamery
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 48 School Near Delano
Little Falls Depot
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Endion Depot In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lost Highway 61
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Old School In Wolverton
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Remembering Quadna Resort
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Le Sueur Theater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome to Hanska
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Sandstone
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
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?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

