In 1899, the Twin City Rapid Transit Company extended its reach of their streetcars to the...
Twin Cities Area
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis was constructed between 1891 and 1893. It was...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Saint Paul Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bend in the River Regional Park is located on the former property of the Graves family. The...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
One of the earliest victims of the big blow on Lake Superior in November of 1905 was the steamer...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Dotson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Green Lake Mounds
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lost Highway 61
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The End of the Line in Currie
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Ottawa
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Le Sueur Theater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Sandstone
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Old Wadena
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Milford Monument
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Cobden
Moving Old Hibbing
Hanover Bridge
Little Falls Depot
Endion School In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Florence Town Hall
Welcome to Hanska
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Old Brewery In Preston
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Oxford Mill Ruin
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Wasioja
The Old School In Wolverton
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Ruins of Sawyer School
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Franconia
District 48 School Near Delano
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
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...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City 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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...

