Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Twin Cities Area
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
At the turn of the twentieth century, newspapers and magazines touted quack cures and healing cults...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gates of Stonebridge
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Cobden
Cobden, Minnesota, was incorporated in 1905. The little railroad town included a bank, creamery...
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Endion Depot in Duluth, Minnesota, was moved to Canal Park in 1986 to make way for the...
Endion School In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Little Falls Depot
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Franconia
Visiting Golden Gate
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Little Marais Inn
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Dotson
The Church of the Holy Cross
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Sandstone
Oxford Mill Ruin
The End of the Line in Currie
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Milford Monument
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome to Hanska
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
District 48 School Near Delano
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Moderne New Ulm Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Wasioja
Jordan Brewery Complex
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Le Sueur Theater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Green Lake Mounds
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Moving Old Hibbing
The Almelund Creamery
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bend in the River Regional Park
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hollywood Town Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
State Theater In Hutchinson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Ottawa
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Florence Town Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Red Wing Iron Works
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

