Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Robbinsdale Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Apartments
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Greater Minnesota
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Around the turn of the twentieth century, Nicollet County had eight rural crossroads hamlets. While...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Moving Old Hibbing
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Oxford Mill Ruin
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Sandstone
The Almelund Creamery
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Milford Monument
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Meyer School In St Augusta
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Little Marais Inn
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hollywood Town Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Little Falls Depot
Green Lake Mounds
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
The Le Sueur Theater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Randall Cooperative Creamery
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
State Theater In Hutchinson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Franconia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Visiting Golden Gate
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hanover Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
District 48 School Near Delano
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
District 6 School in New Sweden
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
The Old School In Wolverton
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

