Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Twin Cities Area
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Eight Days in May Protests
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Apartments
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wilder Public Baths
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Landmark Center In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The West Bridge in Madelia, Minnesota, was built in 1908. It is the earliest remaining example of a...
Welcome to Hanska
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The End of the Line in Currie
The Milford Monument
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood Town Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Church of the Holy Cross
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Visiting Golden Gate
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Moderne New Ulm Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hanover Bridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
State Theater In Hutchinson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Little Marais Inn
Green Lake Mounds
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Dotson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Old School In Wolverton
Florence Town Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Ottawa
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Finding The Past In Swatara
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Remembering Quadna Resort
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Red Wing Iron Works
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
District 48 School Near Delano
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Oxford Mill Ruin
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Old Wadena
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Wasioja
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Franconia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Bend in the River Regional Park
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Le Sueur Theater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...

