One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
Twin Cities Area
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wilder Public Baths
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Eight Days in May Protests
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Greater Minnesota
The Le Sueur Theater
The Le Sueur Theater on Main Street in Le Sueur, Minnesota, opened in 1884. The building was...
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Visiting Golden Gate
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Ottawa
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Jordan Brewery Complex
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Endion Depot In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Cobden
Hanover Bridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Florence Town Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hollywood Town Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Meyer School In St Augusta
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
District 48 School Near Delano
State Theater In Hutchinson
Red Wing Iron Works
Moderne New Ulm Library
Little Falls Depot
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Old Brewery In Preston
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Milford Monument
Moving Old Hibbing
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Little Marais Inn
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
District 6 School in New Sweden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Endion School In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome to Hanska
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

