It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
Twin Cities Area
Wilder Public Baths
District #28 School in Ramsey
The District #28 School was constructed in Ramsey in 1892 to replace a smaller, wood frame school...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gates of Stonebridge
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Apartments
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Townhomes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Greater Minnesota
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
Welcome To Cobden
Cobden, Minnesota, was incorporated in 1905. The little railroad town included a bank, creamery...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Endion School In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Almelund Creamery
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Florence Town Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lost Highway 61
Little Falls Depot
The End of the Line in Currie
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome to Hanska
The Church of the Holy Cross
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
The Duluth Homestead Project
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Visiting Golden Gate
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Old Brewery In Preston
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Little Marais Inn
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Meyer School In St Augusta
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Franconia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Dotson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Sandstone
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hanover Bridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Old Wadena
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Red Wing Iron Works
The Le Sueur Theater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
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...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
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...

