World-renowned author F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in an apartment on the second floor of this...
Twin Cities Area
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Apartments
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Robbinsdale Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Greater Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Settled in 1854 by Pennsylvania native Benjamin Spencer, Spencer Brook was one of the first...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Visiting Golden Gate
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Old School In Wolverton
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Milford Monument
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Little Falls Depot
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion Depot In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lost Highway 61
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Cobden
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Franconia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Red Wing Iron Works
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome to Hanska
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Brewery In Preston
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Finding The Past In Swatara
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Endion School In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Dotson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The End of the Line in Currie
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Jordan Brewery Complex
Moving Old Hibbing
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Enter Marlon Brando
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Meyer School In St Augusta
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Wasioja
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
District 6 School in New Sweden
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Duluth Homestead Project
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bend in the River Regional Park
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
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...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown