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
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Constructed in 1897 for $13,000, the First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was designed...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Robbinsdale Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Eight Days in May Protests
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Several buildings were constructed on 30 acres of lakefront property in Two Harbors in the 1920s to...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Old School In Wolverton
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lost Highway 61
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Enter Marlon Brando
The End of the Line in Currie
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Dotson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Remembering Quadna Resort
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Duluth Homestead Project
Taylor House In Le Sueur
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Oxford Mill Ruin
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Visiting Golden Gate
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome to Hanska
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Little Falls Depot
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Moderne New Ulm Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Old Wadena
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Wasioja
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Sandstone
State Theater In Hutchinson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hanover Bridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Milford Monument
Historic Franconia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Moving Old Hibbing
Finding The Past In Swatara
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Cobden
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
District 48 School Near Delano
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Endion School In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Almelund Creamery
Hollywood Town Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Green Lake Mounds
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Jordan Brewery Complex
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

