Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Twin Cities Area
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
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...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Apartments
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Townhomes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Greater Minnesota
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Minnesota Home School for Girls was established by the state legislature in 1907 as a...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
The Le Sueur Theater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
District 48 School Near Delano
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Cobden
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Ruins of Sawyer School
Little Falls Depot
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Endion School In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Florence Town Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lost Highway 61
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Remembering Quadna Resort
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Wasioja
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Moderne New Ulm Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring Ottawa
Visiting Golden Gate
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hanover Bridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Dotson
Red Wing Iron Works
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Almelund Creamery
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hollywood Town Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Franconia
Old Brewery In Preston
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bend in the River Regional Park
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Oxford Mill Ruin
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Old Wadena
Meyer School In St Augusta
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Moving Old Hibbing
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Milford Monument
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

