Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Apartments
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Robbinsdale Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge (Svenska Mission Kyrka i Sodre Maple Ridge)...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Scottish immigrant James G Craigie settled in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, along with his wife...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hollywood Town Hall
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Franconia
Visiting Golden Gate
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Milford Monument
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Little Marais Inn
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Enter Marlon Brando
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Duluth Homestead Project
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Cobden
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bend in the River Regional Park
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Sandstone
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Old School In Wolverton
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Little Falls Depot
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
District 48 School Near Delano
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome to Hanska
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Red Wing Iron Works
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Florence Town Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Endion School In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hanover Bridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Old Wadena
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Endion Depot In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Le Sueur Theater
State Theater In Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Wasioja
Moving Old Hibbing
Old Brewery In Preston
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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