Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Twin Cities Area
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The first pavilion was built on the shore of Lake Como in St. Paul in 1894. The wooden pavilion was...
District #28 School in Ramsey
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Apartments
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Robbinsdale Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Park Terrace was an opulent building of Victorian townhouses located on a steep hill just off of...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
District 48 School Near Delano
The New Ulm Company Service Station
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
The End of the Line in Currie
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Little Falls Depot
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Visiting Golden Gate
State Theater In Hutchinson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lost Highway 61
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome to Hanska
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hanover Bridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Cobden
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Moving Old Hibbing
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Moderne New Ulm Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Florence Town Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Wasioja
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Old Wadena
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Church of the Holy Cross
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Old School In Wolverton
Jordan Brewery Complex
Ruins of Sawyer School
Red Wing Iron Works
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
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
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown