The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
Twin Cities Area
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
District #28 School in Ramsey
The District #28 School was constructed in Ramsey in 1892 to replace a smaller, wood frame school...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wilder Public Baths
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Robbinsdale Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Several buildings were constructed on 30 acres of lakefront property in Two Harbors in the 1920s to...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Most of us wouldn’t consider a 13,000 square foot mansion situated on a six-acre wooded lot with...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Sandstone
Green Lake Mounds
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Florence Town Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome to Hanska
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Almelund Creamery
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Wasioja
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Ottawa
Hollywood Town Hall
The Milford Monument
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Little Falls Depot
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Franconia
The End of the Line in Currie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Visiting Golden Gate
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Finding The Past In Swatara
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Ruins of Sawyer School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
State Theater In Hutchinson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Le Sueur Theater
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Old Wadena
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Cobden
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion School In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Red Wing Iron Works
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hanover Bridge
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s 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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
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...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

