Although itโs difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Twin Cities Area
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minneapolisโ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wilder Public Baths
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Robbinsdale Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Saint Paul Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
I’m sure we’ve all made typos that made us cringe once we noticed them. But most of our...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
In 1909, just eight years after this school was built in Sandstone, lightning struck. Sadly, the...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Jordan Brewery Complex
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Milford Monument
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hanover Bridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Wasioja
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
District 6 School in New Sweden
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Little Falls Depot
Lost Highway 61
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Red Wing Iron Works
Endion School In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The End of the Line in Currie
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Duluth Homestead Project
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Almelund Creamery
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Sandstone
Endion Depot In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Visiting Golden Gate
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Enter Marlon Brando
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Old School In Wolverton
Old Brewery In Preston
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Moderne New Ulm Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Oxford Mill Ruin
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Cobden
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Green Lake Mounds
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Franconia
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Moving Old Hibbing
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Little Marais Inn
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdingerโs grist mill in the...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
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 Veda Ponikvar?
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...

