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...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Built between 1902 and 1904, this beautiful building on its shady lot served southeast Minneapolis...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wilder Public Baths
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Landmark Center In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Saint Paul Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Apartments
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The District Number 50 school in Essig, Minnesota, opened in 1912. Children attend this one-room...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Free Public Library in Hutchinson, Minnesota, was first organized in 1874 by early settlers of...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome to Hanska
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Endion School In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Old Brewery In Preston
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Wasioja
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Almelund Creamery
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Jordan Brewery Complex
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Duluth Homestead Project
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Sandstone
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The End of the Line in Currie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Visiting Golden Gate
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Milford Monument
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Old School In Wolverton
Lost Highway 61
Florence Town Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hollywood Town Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
District 6 School in New Sweden
Little Falls Depot
Remembering Quadna Resort
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Ottawa
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Dotson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
District 48 School Near Delano
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hanover Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Cobden
Ruins of Sawyer School
Enter Marlon Brando
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Little Marais Inn
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Old Wadena
Moving Old Hibbing
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

