In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
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...
Robbinsdale Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Apartments
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
District #28 School in Ramsey
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Landmark Center In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Townhomes
The Eight Days in May Protests
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
Welcome To Cobden
Cobden, Minnesota, was incorporated in 1905. The little railroad town included a bank, creamery...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Remembering Quadna Resort
The End of the Line in Currie
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bend in the River Regional Park
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hollywood Town Hall
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Ruins of Sawyer School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Little Marais Inn
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome to Hanska
Endion Depot In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Endion School In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hanover Bridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Ottawa
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Red Wing Iron Works
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Church of the Holy Cross
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lost Highway 61
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Enter Marlon Brando
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Meyer School In St Augusta
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Wasioja
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Old Wadena
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Florence Town Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Visiting Golden Gate
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Little Falls Depot
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

