The historic Turnblad mansion was built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan Turnblad, his wife...
Twin Cities Area
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Robbinsdale Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Eight Days in May Protests
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wilder Public Baths
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Apartments
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
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...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
State Theater In Hutchinson
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Sandstone
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Wasioja
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Old School In Wolverton
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lost Highway 61
The End of the Line in Currie
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Le Sueur Theater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Franconia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Cobden
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Enter Marlon Brando
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Dotson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
District 48 School Near Delano
Visiting Golden Gate
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Endion Depot In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome to Hanska
Ruins of Sawyer School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Old Wadena
Florence Town Hall
Endion School In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Ottawa
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Old Brewery In Preston
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Jordan Brewery Complex
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Duluth Homestead Project
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Almelund Creamery
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hanover Bridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
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...

