Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Twin Cities Area
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles G. Jackson immigrated to the U.S. and purchased the Anoka House, the oldest hotel in Anoka...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Townhomes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Robbinsdale Library
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
District 6 School in New Sweden
The District 6 school in New Sweden Township stands in a field surrounded by tall stalks of corn in...
Lost Highway 61
History buffs and curiosity seekers revel in finding a piece of the past. Stumbling across...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Moving Old Hibbing
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Enter Marlon Brando
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hanover Bridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Moderne New Ulm Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Ottawa
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome to Hanska
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Dotson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion Depot In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Incline Railway
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
State Theater In Hutchinson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Church of the Holy Cross
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Wasioja
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Florence Town Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Jordan Brewery Complex
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Meyer School In St Augusta
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Milford Monument
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Red Wing Iron Works
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Little Falls Depot
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hollywood Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Franconia
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Sandstone
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...

