Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The house at 193 N Mackubin in Saint Paul, Minnesota, was built in 1882. This Second Empire-style...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Apartments
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
District #28 School in Ramsey
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Landmark Center In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The End of the Line in Currie
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Moving Old Hibbing
The Le Sueur Theater
Hollywood Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Endion School In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Red Wing Iron Works
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Visiting Golden Gate
The Duluth Homestead Project
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Little Marais Inn
Little Falls Depot
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering Quadna Resort
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Milford Monument
Moderne New Ulm Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Florence Town Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Dotson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hanover Bridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Endion Depot In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Ottawa
Old Brewery In Preston
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Wasioja
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lost Highway 61
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Sandstone
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
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
