When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
Twin Cities Area
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Lowry Hotel opened in 1927 and was 12 floors of pure glamour. An addition was made in 1930 to...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Townhomes
Landmark Center In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
Endion School In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Meyer School In St Augusta
Florence Town Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Le Sueur Theater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Wasioja
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Moving Old Hibbing
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Sandstone
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Milford Monument
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Daniel Piper House in Medford
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Old School In Wolverton
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Franconia
District 6 School in New Sweden
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Cobden
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Almelund Creamery
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
The Church of the Holy Cross
Old Brewery In Preston
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hollywood Town Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
State Theater In Hutchinson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Enter Marlon Brando
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bend in the River Regional Park
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Green Lake Mounds
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lost Highway 61
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Ottawa
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Duluth Homestead Project
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

