When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
Twin Cities Area
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Constructed in 1869-70, the Metropolitan Hotel once stood at the corner of Washington and Third...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Eight Days in May Protests
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Landmark Center In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Englanders who settled in the St Croix Valley were drawn there because of the thick, wild...
District 48 School Near Delano
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Remembering Quadna Resort
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Brewery In Preston
Visiting Golden Gate
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome to Hanska
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hanover Bridge
The Little Marais Inn
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Finding The Past In Swatara
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Oxford Mill Ruin
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Ruins of Sawyer School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Franconia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The End of the Line in Currie
Endion School In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Moving Old Hibbing
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Cobden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Milford Monument
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hollywood Town Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lost Highway 61
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Sandstone
Red Wing Iron Works
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Old School In Wolverton
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

