In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Robbinsdale Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Townhomes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Landmark Center In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Greater Minnesota
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Arthur Orr was a 286’ steel package freighter built by the Chicago Ship Building Company. She...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Park Terrace was an opulent building of Victorian townhouses located on a steep hill just off of...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
District 6 School in New Sweden
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Milford Monument
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Old Brewery In Preston
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Wasioja
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Finding The Past In Swatara
Little Falls Depot
Red Wing Iron Works
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome to Hanska
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Enter Marlon Brando
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Sandstone
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Franconia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Remembering Quadna Resort
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
District 48 School Near Delano
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Oxford Mill Ruin
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Cobden
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Meyer School In St Augusta
Florence Town Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Dotson
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Le Sueur Theater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Visiting Golden Gate
Endion School In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lost Highway 61
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The End of the Line in Currie
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Moderne New Ulm Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Little Marais Inn
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hanover Bridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
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...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

