Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium was the first medical hospital in Anoka, Minnesota. Dr. James F. Kline opened the...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Townhomes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wilder Public Baths
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gates of Stonebridge
District #28 School in Ramsey
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Englanders who settled in the St Croix Valley were drawn there because of the thick, wild...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Almelund Creamery
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Wasioja
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Dotson
The Church of the Holy Cross
The End of the Line in Currie
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Sandstone
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Old Wadena
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hanover Bridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Little Marais Inn
Visiting Golden Gate
Moving Old Hibbing
Red Wing Iron Works
Jordan Brewery Complex
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Green Lake Mounds
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lost Highway 61
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
Remembering Quadna Resort
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome to Hanska
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Milford Monument
Hollywood Town Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Old Brewery In Preston
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Enter Marlon Brando
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Little Falls Depot
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
District 48 School Near Delano
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Ottawa
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion Depot In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Florence Town Hall
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

