In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
Landmark Center In St Paul
Landmark Center in St Paul, Minnesota, was dedicated in 1902 and originally served as the Federal...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Apartments
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Eight Days in May Protests
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
District 48 School Near Delano
It really hurts to see this old schoolhouse so neglected 😟 The Franklin Township (Minnesota)...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Incline Railway
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Franconia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Old Brewery In Preston
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Ottawa
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Oxford Mill Ruin
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Dotson
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Little Marais Inn
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moderne New Ulm Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Endion Depot In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Enter Marlon Brando
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lost Highway 61
The Milford Monument
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hanover Bridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Cobden
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Wasioja
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Old School In Wolverton
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hollywood Town Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Sandstone
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Endion School In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
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?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

