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
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Eight Days in May Protests
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Townhomes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Geldner Sawmill stands on a narrow strip of land that separates Lake Jefferson and German Lake...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Enter Marlon Brando
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Meyer School In St Augusta
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
District 48 School Near Delano
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Remembering Quadna Resort
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Dotson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The End of the Line in Currie
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Red Wing Iron Works
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Wasioja
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome to Hanska
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Milford Monument
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Franconia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Little Marais Inn
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Endion School In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hanover Bridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hollywood Town Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Sandstone
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Church of the Holy Cross
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Green Lake Mounds
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Little Falls Depot
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

