Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Twin Cities Area
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wilder Public Baths
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Robbinsdale Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to one of the most awe-inspiring buildings in Minnesota. It’s big. It’s...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge (Svenska Mission Kyrka i Sodre Maple Ridge)...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Milford Monument
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Wasioja
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Wandering Around The Toimi School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
District 48 School Near Delano
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Oxford Mill Ruin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome to Hanska
The Little Marais Inn
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Endion Depot In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lost Highway 61
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Church of the Holy Cross
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Red Wing Iron Works
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Franconia
Jordan Brewery Complex
Visiting Golden Gate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bend in the River Regional Park
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Duluth Homestead Project
Enter Marlon Brando
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Florence Town Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Endion School In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Finding The Past In Swatara
Little Falls Depot
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Old School In Wolverton
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Dotson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Cobden
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Sandstone
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Ottawa
Moving Old Hibbing
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
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 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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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...

