Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Twin Cities Area
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Robbinsdale Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gates of Stonebridge
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
District #28 School in Ramsey
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Greater Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
In 1872, Joseph Schmucker took over operation of Friton Brewery, which was the first brewery to...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome to Hanska
Florence Town Hall
Lost Highway 61
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hanover Bridge
Historic Wasioja
The Duluth Homestead Project
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Little Marais Inn
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Lundring Service Station in Canby
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Cobden
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Almelund Creamery
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Endion School In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Green Lake Mounds
The End of the Line in Currie
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Moving Old Hibbing
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Le Sueur Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Milford Monument
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Jordan Brewery Complex
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Visiting Golden Gate
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Dotson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
The Old School In Wolverton
Hollywood Town Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...

