The house at 193 N Mackubin in Saint Paul, Minnesota, was built in 1882. This Second Empire-style...
Twin Cities Area
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
In March 1963, the Twin Cities were rocked by a shocking and brutal crime – the murder of Carol...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Townhomes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gates of Stonebridge
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Before the Interstate Bridge was built between Duluth and Superior in the late-1890s, the only way...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hanover Bridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Brewery In Preston
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Almond White and the Motley Castle
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Enter Marlon Brando
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Le Sueur Theater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Old School In Wolverton
Lost Highway 61
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Moderne New Ulm Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The End of the Line in Currie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Franconia
State Theater In Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Jordan Brewery Complex
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Little Marais Inn
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hollywood Town Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Visiting Golden Gate
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Sandstone
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Red Wing Iron Works
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome to Hanska
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Florence Town Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Milford Monument
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Ottawa
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Dotson
District 48 School Near Delano
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Endion Depot In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Wasioja
The Duluth Homestead Project
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
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...

