Built in 1913, the Charles and Grace Parker House was designed by the nationally-prominent Prairie...
Twin Cities Area
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Originally named the Palazzo, the Colonnade Hotel opened on St. Peter Street in Saint Paul in 1888...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Robbinsdale Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Apartments
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Greater Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lost Highway 61
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Milford Monument
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Endion School In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hanover Bridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Visiting Golden Gate
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Duluth Homestead Project
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Cobden
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The End of the Line in Currie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Old School In Wolverton
State Theater In Hutchinson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Le Sueur Theater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Endion Depot In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Dotson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Remembering Quadna Resort
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Ottawa
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Finding The Past In Swatara
Red Wing Iron Works
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Sandstone
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Almelund Creamery
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
District 48 School Near Delano
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Franconia
Florence Town Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Enter Marlon Brando
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moving Old Hibbing
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hollywood Town Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdingerโs grist mill in the...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who donโt...

