The house at 193 N Mackubin in Saint Paul, Minnesota, was built in 1882. This Second Empire-style...
Twin Cities Area
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Landmark Center In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Townhomes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Greater Minnesota
District 6 School in New Sweden
The District 6 school in New Sweden Township stands in a field surrounded by tall stalks of corn in...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Franconia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Cobden
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Ruins of Sawyer School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Wasioja
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Little Falls Depot
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Remembering Quadna Resort
Red Wing Iron Works
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Taylor House In Le Sueur
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Ottawa
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Duluth Homestead Project
Jordan Brewery Complex
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Enter Marlon Brando
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
District 48 School Near Delano
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome to Hanska
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Almelund Creamery
The Little Marais Inn
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Milford Monument
Moving Old Hibbing
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Endion School In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Sandstone
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Florence Town Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bend in the River Regional Park
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hanover Bridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Old Wadena
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

