University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
Twin Cities Area
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wilder Public Baths
It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Apartments
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Robbinsdale Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
William J Mayo was the older of the two Mayo brothers who, along with five partners, founded the...
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Le Sueur Theater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Enter Marlon Brando
Florence Town Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hanover Bridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Milford Monument
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Sandstone
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
State Theater In Hutchinson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Franconia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Little Falls Depot
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
The Little Marais Inn
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lost Highway 61
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
The Almelund Creamery
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hollywood Town Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Cobden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome to Hanska
Endion School In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Ottawa
Bend in the River Regional Park
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Duluth Homestead Project
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Wasioja
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Green Lake Mounds
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The End of the Line in Currie
Endion Depot In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown