St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
Twin Cities Area
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Today, The Blaisdell is a wedding and event venue with cozy places to gather with your nearest and...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Apartments
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Greater Minnesota
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
At around 3:30 p.m. on February 5, 1924, the most devastating mining disaster in Minnesota history...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Early settler and local banker Edson Smith built this French Second Empire style home for his...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome to Hanska
District 6 School in New Sweden
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
District 48 School Near Delano
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hollywood Town Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Florence Town Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Little Marais Inn
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Old Brewery In Preston
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Red Wing Iron Works
Endion Depot In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lost Highway 61
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Duluth Homestead Project
Green Lake Mounds
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Milford Monument
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Little Falls Depot
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Ottawa
The End of the Line in Currie
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Dotson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Le Sueur Theater
Enter Marlon Brando
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Endion School In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Wasioja
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Moving Old Hibbing
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering Quadna Resort
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

