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
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
District #28 School in Ramsey
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Apartments
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Greater Minnesota
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Have you ever wondered how Minnesota became known as the land of 10,000 lakes? Every Minnesotan...
Endion School In Duluth
The Endion School in Duluth, Minnesota, was built in 1890. The architect who designed the three...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Red Wing Iron Works
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bend in the River Regional Park
District 48 School Near Delano
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Church of the Holy Cross
Green Lake Mounds
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Cobden
The Le Sueur Theater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Milford Monument
Hanover Bridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
The End of the Line in Currie
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Moving Old Hibbing
The Almelund Creamery
Moderne New Ulm Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Wasioja
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Old School In Wolverton
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome to Hanska
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Finding The Past In Swatara
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Little Marais Inn
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Franconia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Little Falls Depot
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Remembering Quadna Resort
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Taylor House In Le Sueur
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Meyer School In St Augusta
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Old Wadena
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Hollywood Town Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Daniel Piper House in Medford
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

