Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Minneapolis has many beautiful homes, but the Gale mansion is easily one of my top three. I love...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Robbinsdale Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Greater Minnesota
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The George and Charlotte Crosby house is located just a few blocks east of downtown Duluth...
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
The End of the Line in Currie
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hanover Bridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Old Wadena
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Oxford Mill Ruin
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Church of the Holy Cross
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 48 School Near Delano
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Exploring Ottawa
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Sandstone
Red Wing Iron Works
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Franconia
The Old School In Wolverton
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hollywood Town Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Florence Town Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Old Brewery In Preston
Munger Terrace In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Wasioja
State Theater In Hutchinson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Visiting Golden Gate
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Green Lake Mounds
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Dotson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Ruins of Sawyer School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lost Highway 61
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Cobden
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Endion School In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Almelund Creamery
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
District 6 School in New Sweden
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
The Milford Monument
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland 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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...

