Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Minneapolis has many beautiful homes, but the Gale mansion is easily one of my top three. I love...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wilder Public Baths
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Greater Minnesota
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
The End of the Line in Currie
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Endion School In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hollywood Town Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Little Marais Inn
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Moving Old Hibbing
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome to Hanska
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Florence Town Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Franconia
Historic Wasioja
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hanover Bridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Oxford Mill Ruin
Old Brewery In Preston
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Sandstone
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
State Theater In Hutchinson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Dotson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
District 48 School Near Delano
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Ruins of Sawyer School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Enter Marlon Brando
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lost Highway 61
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Almelund Creamery
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Ottawa
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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