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...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The McKnight’s Park Avenue mansion was completed in 1892 for a total cost of nearly $36,000...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wilder Public Baths
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Apartments
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Robbinsdale Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Greater Minnesota
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State Hospital
In 1873, the State of Minnesota was looking for a way to house an increasingly problematic group of...
Historic Franconia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Sandstone
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Green Lake Mounds
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Ottawa
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Old School In Wolverton
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hanover Bridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Finding The Past In Swatara
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Dotson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Milford Monument
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Remembering Quadna Resort
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Old Brewery In Preston
The Almelund Creamery
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Wasioja
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The End of the Line in Currie
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
District 48 School Near Delano
Enter Marlon Brando
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
The Church of the Holy Cross
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Jordan Brewery Complex
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Meyer School In St Augusta
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
State Theater In Hutchinson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
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...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

