Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Twin Cities Area
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School opened in Minneapolis in 1932. The school was named after Mary...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gates of Stonebridge
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Townhomes
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Robbinsdale Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Have you ever wondered how Minnesota became known as the land of 10,000 lakes? Every Minnesotan...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hollywood Town Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Franconia
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Jordan Brewery Complex
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Old Brewery In Preston
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The End of the Line in Currie
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Le Sueur Theater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Old School In Wolverton
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Ottawa
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Endion School In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Little Falls Depot
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Meyer School In St Augusta
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Little Marais Inn
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Cobden
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
State Theater In Hutchinson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Sandstone
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Milford Monument
The Church of the Holy Cross
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome to Hanska
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Wasioja
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hanover Bridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Old Wadena
District 48 School Near Delano
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Almelund Creamery
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Green Lake Mounds
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lost Highway 61
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Visiting Golden Gate
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland 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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown