Built between 1902 and 1904, this beautiful building on its shady lot served southeast Minneapolis...
Twin Cities Area
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance Building In...
The Germania Life Insurance Building was built in 1889 at Fourth Street and Minnesota in downtown...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Landmark Center In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
District #28 School in Ramsey
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Eight Days in May Protests
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wilder Public Baths
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Townhomes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Greater Minnesota
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
In 1872, Joseph Schmucker took over operation of Friton Brewery, which was the first brewery to...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Visiting Golden Gate
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bend in the River Regional Park
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Franconia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Moderne New Ulm Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Little Marais Inn
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Little Falls Depot
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Sandstone
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Florence Town Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Endion School In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Ruins of Sawyer School
Jordan Brewery Complex
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Moving Old Hibbing
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Oxford Mill Ruin
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Milford Monument
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The End of the Line in Currie
Green Lake Mounds
Lost Highway 61
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Enter Marlon Brando
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Dotson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Cobden
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Old School In Wolverton
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Ottawa
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

