Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Names like Louis Comfort Tiffany and Gustav Stickley are well rooted in many American’s minds as...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wilder Public Baths
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Townhomes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Apartments
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Eight Days in May Protests
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Several buildings were constructed on 30 acres of lakefront property in Two Harbors in the 1920s to...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Munger Terrace has been a landmark in Duluth’s Central Hillside neighborhood since the building was...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Old Brewery In Preston
Florence Town Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
The Little Marais Inn
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood Town Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Meyer School In St Augusta
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Old School In Wolverton
Hanover Bridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Sandstone
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
State Theater In Hutchinson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
The Duluth Homestead Project
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Enter Marlon Brando
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Milford Monument
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Franconia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Red Wing Iron Works
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Jordan Brewery Complex
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Little Falls Depot
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Endion School In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lincoln Park In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lost Highway 61
Visiting Golden Gate
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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...

