Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Twin Cities Area
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Landmark Center In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Eight Days in May Protests
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Robbinsdale Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Visiting Golden Gate
A post office was first established in Golden Gate, Minnesota, in 1868. The little town sprang up...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Scottish immigrant James G Craigie settled in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, along with his wife...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome to Hanska
Finding The Past In Swatara
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Cobden
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Green Lake Mounds
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
Meyer School In St Augusta
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lost Highway 61
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hanover Bridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Dotson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Moving Old Hibbing
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Jordan Brewery Complex
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Little Falls Depot
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hollywood Town Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
The Milford Monument
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Sandstone
Bend in the River Regional Park
Endion Depot In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Church of the Holy Cross
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Red Wing Iron Works
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Almelund Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Little Marais Inn
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Enter Marlon Brando
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Endion School In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Duluth Homestead Project
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Ruins of Sawyer School
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Franconia
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

