As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
Twin Cities Area
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Saint Paul Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Landmark Center In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Apartments
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Greater Minnesota
The End of the Line in Currie
In 1899, the Des Moines Valley Railway Company began work on a plan to extend their rail line in...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
By the end of the 19th century, dairy was quickly out-pacing wheat as the top agricultural...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
District 48 School Near Delano
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Visiting Golden Gate
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Sandstone
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Oxford Mill Ruin
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Florence Town Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Little Falls Depot
The Old School In Wolverton
The Almelund Creamery
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion School In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood Town Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Cobden
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Finding The Past In Swatara
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Dotson
Lost Highway 61
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Milford Monument
Ruins of Sawyer School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Moderne New Ulm Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome to Hanska
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Duluth Homestead Project
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Ottawa
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Wasioja
Old Brewery In Preston
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hanover Bridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesotaโs biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who donโt...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...

