It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
Twin Cities Area
Wilder Public Baths
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The first pavilion was built on the shore of Lake Como in St. Paul in 1894. The wooden pavilion was...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Landmark Center In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Apartments
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Robbinsdale Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Townhomes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Greater Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Milford Monument
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Old School In Wolverton
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Moderne New Ulm Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hollywood Town Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Little Falls Depot
Oxford Mill Ruin
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
District 6 School in New Sweden
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Red Wing Iron Works
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome to Hanska
The Le Sueur Theater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Visiting Golden Gate
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Remembering Quadna Resort
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Duluth Homestead Project
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Dotson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
State Theater In Hutchinson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The End of the Line in Currie
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Wasioja
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Old Wadena
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Almelund Creamery
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Jordan Brewery Complex
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Florence Town Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hanover Bridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lost Highway 61
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Almond White and the Motley Castle
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Old Brewery In Preston
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...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
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...

