The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
Twin Cities Area
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
District #28 School in Ramsey
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gates of Stonebridge
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Apartments
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Robbinsdale Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Greater Minnesota
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
You can’t drive through Zumbrota, Minnesota, without stopping at the covered bridge. It’s located...
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Oxford Mill was located on the bank of the Little Cannon River near Cannon Falls. When the mill...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome to Hanska
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Enter Marlon Brando
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Visiting Golden Gate
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Endion Depot In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Little Marais Inn
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Old Brewery In Preston
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Ottawa
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
District 6 School in New Sweden
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Franconia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Wasioja
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Moving Old Hibbing
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Old Wadena
District 48 School Near Delano
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Duluth Homestead Project
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Meyer School In St Augusta
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Dotson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Cobden
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Red Wing Iron Works
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bend in the River Regional Park
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
State Theater In Hutchinson
The End of the Line in Currie
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Milford Monument
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Endion School In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Almelund Creamery
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood Town Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

