Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Twin Cities Area
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Apartments
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rumors of copper riches hidden in the North Shore's streams and hillsides had excited the...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lost Highway 61
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Little Marais Inn
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome to Hanska
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Franconia
The Almelund Creamery
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Wasioja
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Milford Monument
Little Falls Depot
District 48 School Near Delano
The Old School In Wolverton
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The End of the Line in Currie
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Ottawa
Hollywood Town Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Florence Town Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hanover Bridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Moving Old Hibbing
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Jordan Brewery Complex
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Le Sueur Theater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Visiting Golden Gate
The Church of the Holy Cross
Moderne New Ulm Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Cobden
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Red Wing Iron Works
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Dotson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bend in the River Regional Park
Endion School In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

