Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Twin Cities Area
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Robbinsdale Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Gates of Stonebridge
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Greater Minnesota
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Washington County District No. 2 was formed in 1857 for the growing number of children moving into...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Free Public Library in Hutchinson, Minnesota, was first organized in 1874 by early settlers of...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Old Brewery In Preston
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Moving Old Hibbing
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Franconia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Cobden
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Old School In Wolverton
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Almond White and the Motley Castle
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
District 48 School Near Delano
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Florence Town Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
District 6 School in New Sweden
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome to Hanska
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Enter Marlon Brando
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
The Little Marais Inn
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Ottawa
The Duluth Homestead Project
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Red Wing Iron Works
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Church of the Holy Cross
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Dotson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bend in the River Regional Park
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Sandstone
Moderne New Ulm Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Green Lake Mounds
Finding The Past In Swatara
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The End of the Line in Currie
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
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...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
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...

