Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Townhomes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Robbinsdale Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Greater Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Daniel Piper came to Minnesota from New Hampshire with his wife and daughter in early 1877...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Bally Blacksmith Shop opened in 1911 when Sam Bally left his job at a sawmill to open his own...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Jordan Brewery Complex
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Franconia
Ruins of Sawyer School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Visiting Golden Gate
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome to Hanska
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Le Sueur Theater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Green Lake Mounds
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Endion School In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Old Brewery In Preston
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Milford Monument
District 48 School Near Delano
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Moving Old Hibbing
Hanover Bridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Florence Town Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Meyer School In St Augusta
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bend in the River Regional Park
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Dotson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Little Falls Depot
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Endion Depot In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Almelund Creamery
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Wasioja
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Sandstone
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Enter Marlon Brando
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

