This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
Twin Cities Area
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Constructed in 1869-70, the Metropolitan Hotel once stood at the corner of Washington and Third...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Landmark Center In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Apartments
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Robbinsdale Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Historic Wasioja
Wasioja, Minnesota, was a thriving community in the 1850s and 1860s. The village was settled in...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Visiting Golden Gate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Little Marais Inn
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Ruins of Sawyer School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Moderne New Ulm Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Ottawa
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Old School In Wolverton
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Endion Depot In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Old Wadena
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Green Lake Mounds
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Old Brewery In Preston
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Franconia
State Theater In Hutchinson
Little Falls Depot
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Endion School In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Cobden
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Milford Monument
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lost Highway 61
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Dotson
The Almelund Creamery
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Red Wing Iron Works
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The End of the Line in Currie
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Sandstone
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome to Hanska
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
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
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Article Archive
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