Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wilder Public Baths
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Little Marais Inn
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Endion School In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Moderne New Ulm Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Cobden
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Old Wadena
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Remembering Quadna Resort
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bend in the River Regional Park
Visiting Golden Gate
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hollywood Town Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Sandstone
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Oxford Mill Ruin
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Endion Depot In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Red Wing Iron Works
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Florence Town Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 48 School Near Delano
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Old School In Wolverton
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Old Brewery In Preston
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Le Sueur Theater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Little Falls Depot
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Church of the Holy Cross
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
The Almelund Creamery
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hanover Bridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lost Highway 61
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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