Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wilder Public Baths
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Apartments
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Greater Minnesota
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Beaver Bay is the oldest white settlement along the North Shore of Lake Superior. It was...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Ok, stick with me here. Can you remember how your elementary school smelled? I can. Vividly. A hint...
Exploring Ottawa
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
District 48 School Near Delano
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Moving Old Hibbing
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Enter Marlon Brando
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Remembering Quadna Resort
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jordan Brewery Complex
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Franconia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Little Marais Inn
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Oxford Mill Ruin
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Le Sueur Theater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Cobden
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hanover Bridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Milford Monument
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Florence Town Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Dotson
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lost Highway 61
The Almelund Creamery
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Endion School In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Visiting Golden Gate
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Incline Railway
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Wasioja
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Old Brewery In Preston
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Red Wing Iron Works
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Sandstone
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Old Wadena
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Finding The Past In Swatara
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

