Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Twin Cities Area
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Townhomes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wilder Public Baths
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Robbinsdale Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Apartments
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
District #28 School in Ramsey
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Greater Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Ok, stick with me here. Can you remember how your elementary school smelled? I can. Vividly. A hint...
Green Lake Mounds
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The End of the Line in Currie
Florence Town Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Sandstone
Meyer School In St Augusta
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Franconia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hanover Bridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
District 48 School Near Delano
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Cobden
Endion School In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Old Wadena
Little Falls Depot
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Wasioja
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Endion Depot In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Enter Marlon Brando
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Ottawa
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Old School In Wolverton
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Milford Monument
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Moderne New Ulm Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Dotson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bend in the River Regional Park
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hollywood Town Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Almelund Creamery
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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 First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

