As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
Twin Cities Area
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Townhomes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Apartments
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
November 27, 1905, was a typical Monday morning for the crew of the flat-bottomed scow, George...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Franconia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
The Church of the Holy Cross
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
The Milford Monument
Ruins of Sawyer School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The End of the Line in Currie
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Endion School In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Old School In Wolverton
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Wasioja
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Dotson
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Ottawa
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Little Falls Depot
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Sandstone
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Moderne New Ulm Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Remembering Quadna Resort
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Enter Marlon Brando
Visiting Golden Gate
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Incline Railway
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Florence Town Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Little Marais Inn
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

