The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis was constructed between 1891 and 1893. It was...
Twin Cities Area
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of Minneapolis
In an age before women had the right to vote, Elizabeth C. Quinlan was a natural entrepreneur who...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Townhomes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A library was first established in Two Harbors, Minnesota in 1897. A group of citizens banded...
Meyer School In St Augusta
The original District 35 (Meyer) school was a log structure built around 1868. As the population of...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Moving Old Hibbing
Visiting Golden Gate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Wasioja
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Franconia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The End of the Line in Currie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Red Wing Iron Works
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Ottawa
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Cobden
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Dotson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Almelund Creamery
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Old Wadena
District 48 School Near Delano
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hanover Bridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Green Lake Mounds
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hollywood Town Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Enter Marlon Brando
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Old School In Wolverton
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Old Brewery In Preston
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Ruins of Sawyer School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Endion School In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Florence Town Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Sandstone
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
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 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...

