One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
Twin Cities Area
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wilder Public Baths
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Townhomes
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
The End of the Line in Currie
In 1899, the Des Moines Valley Railway Company began work on a plan to extend their rail line in...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Visiting Golden Gate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Wasioja
Old Brewery In Preston
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Church of the Holy Cross
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Incline Railway
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Ruins of Sawyer School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Le Sueur Theater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Florence Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Moving Old Hibbing
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Endion Depot In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Red Wing Iron Works
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Sandstone
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Dotson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Almelund Creamery
Remembering Quadna Resort
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome to Hanska
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Green Lake Mounds
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Enter Marlon Brando
Little Falls Depot
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
State Theater In Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Cobden
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Little Marais Inn
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hanover Bridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hollywood Town Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

