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
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gates of Stonebridge
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Eight Days in May Protests
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wilder Public Baths
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Greater Minnesota
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The original village hall in Waverly was built in 1893. The two-story, brick and stone building sat...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Wasioja
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hanover Bridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lost Highway 61
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Church of the Holy Cross
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Ottawa
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Red Wing Iron Works
The Little Marais Inn
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The End of the Line in Currie
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Sandstone
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Franconia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Moderne New Ulm Library
Florence Town Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Old School In Wolverton
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion Depot In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Endion School In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Green Lake Mounds
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Moving Old Hibbing
Bend in the River Regional Park
Ruins of Sawyer School
Jordan Brewery Complex
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Le Sueur Theater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome to Hanska
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hollywood Town Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Old Wadena
District 48 School Near Delano
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
State Theater In Hutchinson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Little Falls Depot
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Milford Monument
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
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...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

