In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Constructed in 1869-70, the Metropolitan Hotel once stood at the corner of Washington and Third...
Robbinsdale Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Apartments
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Eight Days in May Protests
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Townhomes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Hanover Bridge
Hanover Bridge was constructed by the Morse Bridge Company of Youngstown, Ohio in 1885. The single...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Free Public Library in Hutchinson, Minnesota, was first organized in 1874 by early settlers of...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Oxford Mill Ruin
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Enter Marlon Brando
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
The Le Sueur Theater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome to Hanska
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Little Falls Depot
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Dotson
Old Brewery In Preston
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Green Lake Mounds
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Moving Old Hibbing
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The End of the Line in Currie
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Franconia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Florence Town Hall
The Milford Monument
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jordan Brewery Complex
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Little Marais Inn
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Red Wing Iron Works
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Almelund Creamery
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Endion Depot In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Ottawa
District 48 School Near Delano
The Church of the Holy Cross
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

