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 Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles G. Jackson immigrated to the U.S. and purchased the Anoka House, the oldest hotel in Anoka...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wilder Public Baths
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Saint Paul Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Robbinsdale Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Townhomes
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Greater Minnesota
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
This gorgeous Second Empire style home in Hastings was built for William Thompson in 1880. Thompson...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Originally built as the second home of the First Swedish Baptist Church in 1910, the Temple Baptist...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Cobden
The End of the Line in Currie
Lost Highway 61
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Old Brewery In Preston
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Dotson
Visiting Golden Gate
The Church of the Holy Cross
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Enter Marlon Brando
The Old School In Wolverton
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hollywood Town Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Oxford Mill Ruin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Wasioja
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Ottawa
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
District 6 School in New Sweden
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
Moving Old Hibbing
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Sandstone
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hanover Bridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome to Hanska
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Le Sueur Theater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Almelund Creamery
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Little Falls Depot
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Jordan Brewery Complex
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Franconia
The Milford Monument
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
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 Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...

