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
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Located in Robbinsdale, the international-style Terrace Theatre opened on May 23, 1951. At the...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wilder Public Baths
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Townhomes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Robbinsdale Library
Greater Minnesota
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ness Congregation was originally organized as the Norwegian Evangelical St. Johannes...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
This gorgeous Second Empire style home in Hastings was built for William Thompson in 1880. Thompson...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lost Highway 61
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Red Wing Iron Works
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
District 6 School in New Sweden
Endion School In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Moderne New Ulm Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The End of the Line in Currie
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Little Marais Inn
District 48 School Near Delano
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Cobden
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Welcome to Hanska
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Sandstone
State Theater In Hutchinson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Green Lake Mounds
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Almelund Creamery
Ruins of Sawyer School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hollywood Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Milford Monument
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Dotson
Hanover Bridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Florence Town Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Visiting Golden Gate
The Church of the Holy Cross
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Jordan Brewery Complex
Moving Old Hibbing
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac 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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...

