It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
Twin Cities Area
Wilder Public Baths
The Gates of Stonebridge
In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Apartments
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Greater Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
If you’ve been to the Mille Lacs area of Minnesota, there’s a good chance you’ve...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Endion School In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
District 6 School in New Sweden
Little Falls Depot
District 48 School Near Delano
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Milford Monument
Ruins of Sawyer School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Florence Town Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lost Highway 61
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Cobden
Moving Old Hibbing
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Dotson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Meyer School In St Augusta
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Little Marais Inn
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Ottawa
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Franconia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Green Lake Mounds
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hollywood Town Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Finding The Past In Swatara
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Church of the Holy Cross
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

