The Washburn water tower sits on a hill in the heart of the Washburn Park (commonly known as...
Twin Cities Area
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s Guardians of Health
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Eight Days in May Protests
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A library was first established in Two Harbors, Minnesota in 1897. A group of citizens banded...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
District 6 School in New Sweden
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Cobden
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Le Sueur Theater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Almelund Creamery
Hollywood Town Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Enter Marlon Brando
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Moving Old Hibbing
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Old School In Wolverton
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome to Hanska
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Wasioja
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Dotson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Florence Town Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Visiting Golden Gate
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Church of the Holy Cross
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lost Highway 61
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Old Wadena
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Finding The Past In Swatara
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The End of the Line in Currie
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Milford Monument
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Red Wing Iron Works
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Sandstone
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Endion Depot In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering Quadna Resort
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Ottawa
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
District 48 School Near Delano
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Brewery In Preston
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

