If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
Twin Cities Area
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
The Swinford Apartments
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Robbinsdale Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Hollywood Town Hall
The Carver County District Number 76 School was built in 1906 and opened for classes in the fall of...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Le Sueur Theater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Green Lake Mounds
The Little Marais Inn
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Cobden
Remembering Quadna Resort
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Ottawa
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
State Theater In Hutchinson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Dotson
Enter Marlon Brando
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Franconia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lost Highway 61
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bend in the River Regional Park
Florence Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hanover Bridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Moderne New Ulm Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Endion School In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Visiting Golden Gate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Old School In Wolverton
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Wasioja
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Red Wing Iron Works
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Moving Old Hibbing
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
The Church of the Holy Cross
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Brewery In Preston
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

