The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
Twin Cities Area
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Eight Days in May Protests
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Greater Minnesota
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State Hospital
In 1873, the State of Minnesota was looking for a way to house an increasingly problematic group of...
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Endion Depot In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Ottawa
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Milford Monument
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lost Highway 61
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Cobden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Le Sueur Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Dotson
District 48 School Near Delano
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Enter Marlon Brando
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Green Lake Mounds
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Old Wadena
District 6 School in New Sweden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Old School In Wolverton
The End of the Line in Currie
Visiting Golden Gate
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome to Hanska
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Red Wing Iron Works
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Florence Town Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Endion School In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Jordan Brewery Complex
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Wasioja
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Moderne New Ulm Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hanover Bridge
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
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...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...

