Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Townhomes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wilder Public Baths
Robbinsdale Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Greater Minnesota
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
The Le Sueur Theater
The Le Sueur Theater on Main Street in Le Sueur, Minnesota, opened in 1884. The building was...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood Town Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Visiting Golden Gate
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
State Theater In Hutchinson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Old Wadena
Green Lake Mounds
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Almelund Creamery
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Little Marais Inn
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lincoln Park In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Franconia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Meyer School In St Augusta
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Red Wing Iron Works
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome to Hanska
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Sandstone
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lost Highway 61
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Ruins of Sawyer School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Ottawa
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Enter Marlon Brando
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Old Brewery In Preston
Florence Town Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Wasioja
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The End of the Line in Currie
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Dotson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

