As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
Twin Cities Area
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of Minneapolis
In an age before women had the right to vote, Elizabeth C. Quinlan was a natural entrepreneur who...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Landmark Center In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Apartments
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wilder Public Baths
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Townhomes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George Neuwirth operated a popular bowling alley and bar throughout the 1930s and 1940s in New Ulm...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
In 1872, Joseph Schmucker took over operation of Friton Brewery, which was the first brewery to...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Sandstone
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Oxford Mill Ruin
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Little Falls Depot
Jordan Brewery Complex
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The End of the Line in Currie
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Moving Old Hibbing
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hanover Bridge
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Florence Town Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Red Wing Iron Works
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Old School In Wolverton
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Endion Depot In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Finding The Past In Swatara
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Ottawa
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Old Brewery In Preston
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome to Hanska
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
District 48 School Near Delano
Wandering Around The Toimi School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Ruins of Sawyer School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Milford Monument
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Franconia
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Cobden
The Duluth Homestead Project
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Taylor House In Le Sueur
District 6 School in New Sweden
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Le Sueur Theater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
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 don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

