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...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Constructed in 1897 for $13,000, the First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was designed...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Robbinsdale Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Apartments
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lincoln Park is 37 acres of space along Miller Creek in Duluth’s west end. Today, the park includes...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Old Brewery In Preston
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
District 48 School Near Delano
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Ottawa
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Old School In Wolverton
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Florence Town Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
The Little Marais Inn
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Old Wadena
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Le Sueur Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Milford Monument
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Cobden
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Wasioja
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Dotson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Almelund Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Moving Old Hibbing
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Enter Marlon Brando
The Church of the Holy Cross
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Oxford Mill Ruin
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Endion School In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Little Falls Depot
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
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...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

