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