As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
Twin Cities Area
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Robbinsdale Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Apartments
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Greater Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
State Theater In Hutchinson
The State Theater in Hutchinson, Minnesota, opened its doors on December 28, 1937. Customers paid...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Little Marais Inn
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Florence Town Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The End of the Line in Currie
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Enter Marlon Brando
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering Quadna Resort
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hanover Bridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Old School In Wolverton
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Red Wing Iron Works
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
District 6 School in New Sweden
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Franconia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hollywood Town Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lost Highway 61
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Bend in the River Regional Park
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Wasioja
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Old Brewery In Preston
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Almond White and the Motley Castle
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Visiting Golden Gate
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Green Lake Mounds
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Le Sueur Theater
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
District 48 School Near Delano
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Milford Monument
Little Falls Depot
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome to Hanska
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Moving Old Hibbing
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
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 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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...

