Built between 1902 and 1904, this beautiful building on its shady lot served southeast Minneapolis...
Twin Cities Area
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles G. Jackson immigrated to the U.S. and purchased the Anoka House, the oldest hotel in Anoka...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Apartments
The Eight Days in May Protests
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Landmark Center In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Robbinsdale Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Saint Paul Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Greater Minnesota
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
For several years, Tenney held the distinction of being Minnesota’s smallest town. The 2010 census...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
There are quite a few examples of the gorgeous Eastlake-style architecture in Minnesota, but this...
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Little Marais Inn
Enter Marlon Brando
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Wasioja
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Visiting Golden Gate
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Cobden
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Green Lake Mounds
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hollywood Town Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
District 48 School Near Delano
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Endion School In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
State Theater In Hutchinson
Florence Town Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Moving Old Hibbing
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Old School In Wolverton
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Old Brewery In Preston
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Red Wing Iron Works
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The End of the Line in Currie
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Almelund Creamery
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Le Sueur Theater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Milford Monument
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Duluth Homestead Project
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Finding The Past In Swatara
Jordan Brewery Complex
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hanover Bridge
Welcome to Hanska
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Franconia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
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...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central 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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
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 Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...

