Built in 1913, the Charles and Grace Parker House was designed by the nationally-prominent Prairie...
Twin Cities Area
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Greater Minnesota
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to one of the most awe-inspiring buildings in Minnesota. It’s big. It’s...
Hollywood Town Hall
The Carver County District Number 76 School was built in 1906 and opened for classes in the fall of...
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lost Highway 61
Old Brewery In Preston
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Finding The Past In Swatara
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Endion Depot In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Sandstone
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Old Wadena
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Endion School In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Le Sueur Theater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Red Wing Iron Works
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Almelund Creamery
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome to Hanska
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Wasioja
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
District 6 School in New Sweden
Enter Marlon Brando
Meyer School In St Augusta
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Old School In Wolverton
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Green Lake Mounds
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Little Falls Depot
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Oxford Mill Ruin
Visiting Golden Gate
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Milford Monument
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Cobden
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Remembering Quadna Resort
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

