The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Twin Cities Area
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg and his wife Dora were the owners of a jewelry store in downtown Minneapolis in the...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Apartments
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Saint Paul Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Orpheum Theater in Duluth, Minnesota, was built on the old Temple Opera House site. The opera...
Moderne New Ulm Library
In 1936, a sleek, Moderne-style public library was built in New Ulm, Minnesota. The land for the...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Red Wing Iron Works
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Old Brewery In Preston
The Little Marais Inn
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Church of the Holy Cross
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Ruins of Sawyer School
Enter Marlon Brando
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lost Highway 61
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Finding The Past In Swatara
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Milford Monument
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Visiting Golden Gate
Endion School In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Green Lake Mounds
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Sandstone
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hanover Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Little Falls Depot
Meyer School In St Augusta
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Florence Town Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
The Duluth Homestead Project
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Dotson
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Cobden
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Ottawa
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Munger Terrace In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Wasioja
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The End of the Line in Currie
The Almelund Creamery
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Franconia
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

