When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
Twin Cities Area
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gates of Stonebridge
In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Eight Days in May Protests
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wilder Public Baths
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Robbinsdale Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Beaver Bay is the oldest white settlement along the North Shore of Lake Superior. It was...
Hanover Bridge
Hanover Bridge was constructed by the Morse Bridge Company of Youngstown, Ohio in 1885. The single...
Welcome To Cobden
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Wasioja
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Red Wing Iron Works
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Almond White and the Motley Castle
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome to Hanska
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Franconia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Little Falls Depot
District 6 School in New Sweden
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Almelund Creamery
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Old Wadena
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Sandstone
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Milford Monument
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Green Lake Mounds
Old Brewery In Preston
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Lost Highway 61
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Endion School In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Little Marais Inn
The Duluth Homestead Project
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Wandering Around The Toimi School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Endion Depot In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Dotson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Moving Old Hibbing
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Old School In Wolverton
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hollywood Town Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Visiting Golden Gate
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Le Sueur Theater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
Bend in the River Regional Park
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...

