When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
Twin Cities Area
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Townhomes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Apartments
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wilder Public Baths
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
This old stone chapel was built at the Sunrise Funeral Home and Cemetery in 1949. Located in...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
In 1909, just eight years after this school was built in Sandstone, lightning struck. Sadly, the...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Cobden
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Green Lake Mounds
The Old School In Wolverton
Jordan Brewery Complex
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Little Marais Inn
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hanover Bridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Endion School In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Milford Monument
Red Wing Iron Works
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Wasioja
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Sandstone
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome to Hanska
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Old Brewery In Preston
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Franconia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood Town Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Old Wadena
Daniel Piper House in Medford
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Almelund Creamery
Little Falls Depot
Bend in the River Regional Park
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Visiting Golden Gate
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Ottawa
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Almond White and the Motley Castle
District 6 School in New Sweden
Enter Marlon Brando
State Theater In Hutchinson
Florence Town Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lost Highway 61
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
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 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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
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 Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

