Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the stateโs empire builders, St. Paulโs elite built their...
Twin Cities Area
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Robbinsdale Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wilder Public Baths
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Apartments
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
District #28 School in Ramsey
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The End of the Line in Currie
In 1899, the Des Moines Valley Railway Company began work on a plan to extend their rail line in...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Geldner Sawmill stands on a narrow strip of land that separates Lake Jefferson and German Lake...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Jordan Brewery Complex
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Little Marais Inn
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Sandstone
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Almelund Creamery
Old Brewery In Preston
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Florence Town Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hanover Bridge
Historic Wasioja
Welcome to Hanska
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Green Lake Mounds
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Endion School In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Milford Monument
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Meyer School In St Augusta
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Little Falls Depot
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Ottawa
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
State Theater In Hutchinson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Dotson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Hollywood Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Moderne New Ulm Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Finding The Past In Swatara
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Franconia
The Old School In Wolverton
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who donโt...

