Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Townhomes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wilder Public Baths
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Apartments
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Robbinsdale Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Greater Minnesota
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bend in the River Regional Park is located on the former property of the Graves family. The...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
There are quite a few examples of the gorgeous Eastlake-style architecture in Minnesota, but this...
Florence Town Hall
Welcome to Hanska
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Meyer School In St Augusta
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Ruins of Sawyer School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Dotson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Milford Monument
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Red Wing Iron Works
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Wasioja
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The End of the Line in Currie
Enter Marlon Brando
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Endion Depot In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Ottawa
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hollywood Town Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Franconia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Endion School In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Little Marais Inn
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Almelund Creamery
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Cobden
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Duluth Homestead Project
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Moving Old Hibbing
State Theater In Hutchinson
District 48 School Near Delano
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Old School In Wolverton
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Old Brewery In Preston
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Little Falls Depot
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lost Highway 61
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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