University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
Twin Cities Area
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wilder Public Baths
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
November 27, 1905, was a typical Monday morning for the crew of the flat-bottomed scow, George...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hollywood Town Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Church of the Holy Cross
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
District 48 School Near Delano
The End of the Line in Currie
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Wasioja
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Endion Depot In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Moving Old Hibbing
Florence Town Hall
The Milford Monument
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hanover Bridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Finding The Past In Swatara
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Old Brewery In Preston
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Red Wing Iron Works
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Cobden
Green Lake Mounds
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Old School In Wolverton
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Sandstone
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Meyer School In St Augusta
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
State Theater In Hutchinson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lost Highway 61
The Le Sueur Theater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Franconia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bend in the River Regional Park
Enter Marlon Brando
The Little Marais Inn
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Almelund Creamery
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

