Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The McKnight’s Park Avenue mansion was completed in 1892 for a total cost of nearly $36,000...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Saint Paul Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
The Almelund Creamery
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Florence Town Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
State Theater In Hutchinson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hanover Bridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Moving Old Hibbing
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Enter Marlon Brando
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Old Brewery In Preston
Endion School In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Old School In Wolverton
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Cobden
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Le Sueur Theater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Finding The Past In Swatara
District 48 School Near Delano
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lost Highway 61
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
The Duluth Homestead Project
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Wasioja
The Little Marais Inn
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The End of the Line in Currie
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Franconia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome to Hanska
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Dotson
Endion Depot In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Oxford Mill Ruin
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
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
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City