Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Twin Cities Area
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Construction on the Hamm Building in downtown St Paul began in 1915 and was completed in 1920. The...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Townhomes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The public library in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota was built in 1913 with a $10,000 grant from Andrew...
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Green Lake Mounds
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Old Wadena
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
District 6 School in New Sweden
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The End of the Line in Currie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hollywood Town Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Milford Monument
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Dotson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Old School In Wolverton
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Florence Town Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
Enter Marlon Brando
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome to Hanska
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Wasioja
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Endion School In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Franconia
Little Falls Depot
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Red Wing Iron Works
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Little Marais Inn
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Sandstone
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Old Brewery In Preston
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hanover Bridge
The Almelund Creamery
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

