Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Twin Cities Area
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Robbinsdale Library
The Robbinsdale Library opened its doors for the first time on January 4, 1926, thanks to the...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Apartments
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Townhomes
Wilder Public Baths
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Sandstone
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Green Lake Mounds
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Endion School In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Ruins of Sawyer School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Moving Old Hibbing
Old Brewery In Preston
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Dotson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Wasioja
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Almelund Creamery
Lost Highway 61
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Le Sueur Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The End of the Line in Currie
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Franconia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Ottawa
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hanover Bridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Florence Town Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Cobden
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
State Theater In Hutchinson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
District 6 School in New Sweden
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Visiting Golden Gate
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome to Hanska
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
District 48 School Near Delano
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...

