The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Twin Cities Area
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Landmark Center In St Paul
Landmark Center in St Paul, Minnesota, was dedicated in 1902 and originally served as the Federal...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Apartments
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wilder Public Baths
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Greater Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Originally built as the second home of the First Swedish Baptist Church in 1910, the Temple Baptist...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Visiting Golden Gate
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Cobden
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Le Sueur Theater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bend in the River Regional Park
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Munger Terrace In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Ottawa
The Little Marais Inn
Old Brewery In Preston
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Endion School In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Little Falls Depot
District 48 School Near Delano
Jordan Brewery Complex
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Sandstone
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hanover Bridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Dotson
Lost Highway 61
Red Wing Iron Works
The Church of the Holy Cross
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Meyer School In St Augusta
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Florence Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Almelund Creamery
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Green Lake Mounds
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Old Wadena
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Milford Monument
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The End of the Line in Currie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome to Hanska
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

