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...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Apartments
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Robbinsdale Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wilder Public Baths
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
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...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pennsylvania-native Joseph Renshaw Brown arrived in Minnesota at the age of 14 with the Army. He...
Hanover Bridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Franconia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Church of the Holy Cross
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Endion Depot In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Wasioja
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hollywood Town Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Green Lake Mounds
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
District 48 School Near Delano
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Meyer School In St Augusta
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Moving Old Hibbing
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Milford Monument
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Endion School In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Almelund Creamery
Old Brewery In Preston
Visiting Golden Gate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Taylor House In Le Sueur
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Old School In Wolverton
Lost Highway 61
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Little Falls Depot
Moderne New Ulm Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Le Sueur Theater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome to Hanska
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The End of the Line in Currie
Red Wing Iron Works
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
District 6 School in New Sweden
Oxford Mill Ruin
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

