If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
Twin Cities Area
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s Guardians of Health
The Washburn water tower sits on a hill in the heart of the Washburn Park (commonly known as...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Robbinsdale Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Townhomes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Apartments
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gates of Stonebridge
District #28 School in Ramsey
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Meyer School In St Augusta
The original District 35 (Meyer) school was a log structure built around 1868. As the population of...
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Milford Monument
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Red Wing Iron Works
Remembering Quadna Resort
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Wasioja
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
District 48 School Near Delano
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Almelund Creamery
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome to Hanska
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Visiting Golden Gate
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hollywood Town Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Enter Marlon Brando
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Little Marais Inn
Green Lake Mounds
Finding The Past In Swatara
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Old School In Wolverton
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Dotson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Old Wadena
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Old Brewery In Preston
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Sandstone
Lost Highway 61
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
The End of the Line in Currie
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Little Falls Depot
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Endion School In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Ruins of Sawyer School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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...

