In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Robbinsdale Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Apartments
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Greater Minnesota
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Donald and Carrie Balfour house in Rochester, Minnesota, is a lovely example of how an Arts and...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Geldner Sawmill stands on a narrow strip of land that separates Lake Jefferson and German Lake...
Old Brewery In Preston
The Le Sueur Theater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Enter Marlon Brando
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Moderne New Ulm Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Franconia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Almelund Creamery
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Dotson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hollywood Town Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Florence Town Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Visiting Golden Gate
The End of the Line in Currie
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Oxford Mill Ruin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Old Wadena
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hanover Bridge
The Milford Monument
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome to Hanska
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Wasioja
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lost Highway 61
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Green Lake Mounds
Bend in the River Regional Park
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
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 Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...

