University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
Twin Cities Area
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Robbinsdale Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gates of Stonebridge
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Apartments
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Greater Minnesota
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
St Rose of Lima church was built in 1878. The church and its cemetery sit on over an acre of land...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The charming town of Winona, Minnesota, once played host to an extraordinary tale in the world of...
Little Falls Depot
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Moderne New Ulm Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Franconia
The Little Marais Inn
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Old Brewery In Preston
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Cobden
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hanover Bridge
Welcome to Hanska
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Almelund Creamery
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
District 48 School Near Delano
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Ottawa
Meyer School In St Augusta
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Red Wing Iron Works
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Visiting Golden Gate
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Endion Depot In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lost Highway 61
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The End of the Line in Currie
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Wasioja
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Le Sueur Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Florence Town Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Endion School In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

