If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
Twin Cities Area
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Apartments
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Townhomes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The George and Charlotte Crosby house is located just a few blocks east of downtown Duluth...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
In 1957, trucks loaded with prefabricated homes rolled along Highway 61 toward a new building site...
The Milford Monument
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Visiting Golden Gate
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Jordan Brewery Complex
Endion School In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Enter Marlon Brando
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Cobden
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hollywood Town Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Ottawa
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Finding The Past In Swatara
Endion Depot In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome to Hanska
Moving Old Hibbing
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Le Sueur Theater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 48 School Near Delano
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Duluth Homestead Project
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Little Marais Inn
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bend in the River Regional Park
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Wasioja
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
District 6 School in New Sweden
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hanover Bridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Ruins of Sawyer School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The End of the Line in Currie
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Franconia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
State Theater In Hutchinson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

