As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
Twin Cities Area
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Robbinsdale Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
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...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Munger Terrace has been a landmark in Duluth’s Central Hillside neighborhood since the building was...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Le Sueur Theater
Red Wing Iron Works
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lost Highway 61
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Finding The Past In Swatara
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Duluth Homestead Project
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Green Lake Mounds
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Endion School In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The New Ulm Company Service Station
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Cobden
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Visiting Golden Gate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Little Falls Depot
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Old School In Wolverton
The Almelund Creamery
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Sandstone
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Wandering Around The Toimi School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Little Marais Inn
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Meyer School In St Augusta
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Moving Old Hibbing
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hanover Bridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Wasioja
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Church of the Holy Cross
Enter Marlon Brando
District 6 School in New Sweden
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Milford Monument
Exploring Ottawa
Remembering Quadna Resort
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome to Hanska
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Old Brewery In Preston
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
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...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

