In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Townhomes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Eight Days in May Protests
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Robbinsdale Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
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...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Old School In Wolverton
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Remembering Quadna Resort
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Little Falls Depot
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood Town Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lost Highway 61
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome to Hanska
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Endion Depot In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hanover Bridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Green Lake Mounds
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Sandstone
The Almelund Creamery
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
District 48 School Near Delano
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Visiting Golden Gate
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Le Sueur Theater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Jordan Brewery Complex
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Milford Monument
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Ottawa
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Duluth Homestead Project
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Moving Old Hibbing
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his motherโs death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesotaโs biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who donโt...

