Harry F. Legg and his wife Dora were the owners of a jewelry store in downtown Minneapolis in the...
Twin Cities Area
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wilder Public Baths
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Robbinsdale Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Apartments
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
You can’t drive through Zumbrota, Minnesota, without stopping at the covered bridge. It’s located...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Built in 1898, the West Riverside School was originally known as District #38 School. Isanti County...
State Theater In Hutchinson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hanover Bridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Meyer School In St Augusta
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
District 6 School in New Sweden
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Little Falls Depot
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Franconia
Enter Marlon Brando
The Almelund Creamery
Visiting Golden Gate
Moderne New Ulm Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
The Church of the Holy Cross
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Finding The Past In Swatara
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Old School In Wolverton
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The End of the Line in Currie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Red Wing Iron Works
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
The Milford Monument
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome to Hanska
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Old Wadena
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Cobden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hollywood Town Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Wasioja
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland 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 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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
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...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

