Miller Vocational High School opened in Minneapolis in 1932. The school was named after Mary...
Twin Cities Area
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The first pavilion was built on the shore of Lake Como in St. Paul in 1894. The wooden pavilion was...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Landmark Center In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Townhomes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Apartments
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Robbinsdale Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Settled in 1854 by Pennsylvania native Benjamin Spencer, Spencer Brook was one of the first...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State Hospital
In 1873, the State of Minnesota was looking for a way to house an increasingly problematic group of...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Little Marais Inn
The Milford Monument
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Little Falls Depot
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lost Highway 61
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The End of the Line in Currie
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Franconia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Enter Marlon Brando
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bend in the River Regional Park
Endion Depot In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Visiting Golden Gate
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Old School In Wolverton
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hanover Bridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Moving Old Hibbing
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Oxford Mill Ruin
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hollywood Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Ottawa
Green Lake Mounds
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Dotson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Ruins of Sawyer School
District 48 School Near Delano
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Wasioja
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Endion School In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Cobden
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
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 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 Eloise Butler?
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

