St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
Twin Cities Area
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
At the turn of the twentieth century, newspapers and magazines touted quack cures and healing cults...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Townhomes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wilder Public Baths
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gates of Stonebridge
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
District #28 School in Ramsey
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Robbinsdale Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Greater Minnesota
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Donald and Carrie Balfour house in Rochester, Minnesota, is a lovely example of how an Arts and...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Geldner Sawmill stands on a narrow strip of land that separates Lake Jefferson and German Lake...
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Red Wing Iron Works
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Little Marais Inn
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Old School In Wolverton
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Cobden
The Almelund Creamery
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
District 48 School Near Delano
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Remembering Quadna Resort
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The End of the Line in Currie
Oxford Mill Ruin
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Ottawa
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Le Sueur Theater
Enter Marlon Brando
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Little Falls Depot
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Franconia
State Theater In Hutchinson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Old Brewery In Preston
The Church of the Holy Cross
Visiting Golden Gate
The Milford Monument
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hollywood Town Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Ruins of Sawyer School
Finding The Past In Swatara
Meyer School In St Augusta
Florence Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hanover Bridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Wasioja
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bend in the River Regional Park
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

