The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Twin Cities Area
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Built between 1902 and 1904, this beautiful building on its shady lot served southeast Minneapolis...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Townhomes
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
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...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Endion Depot In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Le Sueur Theater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Remembering Quadna Resort
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Little Falls Depot
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hollywood Town Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Milford Monument
Old Brewery In Preston
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Sandstone
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Oxford Mill Ruin
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
State Theater In Hutchinson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Old School In Wolverton
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Wasioja
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Meyer School In St Augusta
Green Lake Mounds
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Dotson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Ottawa
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Almelund Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Little Marais Inn
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hanover Bridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Cobden
District 6 School in New Sweden
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

