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 Weatherball in Minneapolis
On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, Minneapolis lost one of its most enduring landmarks--the Weatherball...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gates of Stonebridge
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Eight Days in May Protests
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Landmark Center In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Greater Minnesota
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Built in 1898, the West Riverside School was originally known as District #38 School. Isanti County...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Orpheum Theater in Duluth, Minnesota, was built on the old Temple Opera House site. The opera...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hanover Bridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Old Wadena
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lost Highway 61
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome to Hanska
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
State Theater In Hutchinson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Meyer School In St Augusta
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Dotson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Ottawa
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Wasioja
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Le Sueur Theater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Visiting Golden Gate
District 48 School Near Delano
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion Depot In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Cobden
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Franconia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Milford Monument
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Florence Town Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Red Wing Iron Works
Green Lake Mounds
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Moving Old Hibbing
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Almelund Creamery
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Old School In Wolverton
Hollywood Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Little Falls Depot
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
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 Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

