Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Twin Cities Area
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
On March 22, 1836, Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark married Lieutenant Horatio Phillips Van Cleve a few...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Apartments
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Eight Days in May Protests
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
The Le Sueur Theater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Oxford Mill Ruin
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Wasioja
Moderne New Ulm Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Moving Old Hibbing
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Old School In Wolverton
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Sandstone
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Florence Town Hall
Little Falls Depot
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
District 6 School in New Sweden
Enter Marlon Brando
Endion School In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome to Hanska
District 48 School Near Delano
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
State Theater In Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The New Ulm Company Service Station
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Visiting Golden Gate
Hanover Bridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Almelund Creamery
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Endion Depot In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bend in the River Regional Park
Jordan Brewery Complex
Old Brewery In Preston
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Franconia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Red Wing Iron Works
The End of the Line in Currie
Remembering Quadna Resort
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lost Highway 61
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Dotson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

