The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Twin Cities Area
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
On March 22, 1836, Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark married Lieutenant Horatio Phillips Van Cleve a few...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Townhomes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Robbinsdale Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Greater Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
Meyer School In St Augusta
The original District 35 (Meyer) school was a log structure built around 1868. As the population of...
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Old Wadena
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Oxford Mill Ruin
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The End of the Line in Currie
The Duluth Homestead Project
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
State Theater In Hutchinson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Little Marais Inn
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome to Hanska
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Old Brewery In Preston
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Enter Marlon Brando
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Sandstone
Finding The Past In Swatara
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Moderne New Ulm Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hanover Bridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Milford Monument
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lost Highway 61
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Cobden
Hollywood Town Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Old School In Wolverton
The Le Sueur Theater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Florence Town Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Franconia
Red Wing Iron Works
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Ruins of Sawyer School
Jordan Brewery Complex
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Little Falls Depot
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Moving Old Hibbing
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

