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 End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
In 1899, the Twin City Rapid Transit Company extended its reach of their streetcars to the...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Townhomes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Robbinsdale Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
District #28 School in Ramsey
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hanover Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Moving Old Hibbing
Little Falls Depot
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Sandstone
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lost Highway 61
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hollywood Town Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Wasioja
The Le Sueur Theater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Meyer School In St Augusta
Endion Depot In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Enter Marlon Brando
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Ottawa
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Duluth Homestead Project
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
District 48 School Near Delano
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Red Wing Iron Works
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Little Marais Inn
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The End of the Line in Currie
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Dotson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome to Hanska
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Old Brewery In Preston
Oxford Mill Ruin
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

