The house at 193 N Mackubin in Saint Paul, Minnesota, was built in 1882. This Second Empire-style...
Twin Cities Area
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Landmark Center In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wilder Public Baths
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Robbinsdale Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Townhomes
Greater Minnesota
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District Number 11 in McLeod County was first organized in 1865 to serve the predominantly Czech...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Before the Interstate Bridge was built between Duluth and Superior in the late-1890s, the only way...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Green Lake Mounds
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Little Marais Inn
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Enter Marlon Brando
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Remembering Quadna Resort
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lost Highway 61
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Almelund Creamery
Old Brewery In Preston
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Franconia
The End of the Line in Currie
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Wasioja
The Milford Monument
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Ottawa
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Dotson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Old School In Wolverton
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
District 6 School in New Sweden
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Cobden
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Moderne New Ulm Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Florence Town Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Endion School In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hollywood Town Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Red Wing Iron Works
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hanover Bridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Endion Depot In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Le Sueur Theater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
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...

