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...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Landmark Center In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Saint Paul Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Apartments
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
After 120 years, the mystery of what happened to Clara Ober between the evening of July 29th, 1895...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Franconia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Red Wing Iron Works
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Visiting Golden Gate
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Le Sueur Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Ottawa
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Wasioja
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lost Highway 61
Endion Depot In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
District 6 School in New Sweden
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Finding The Past In Swatara
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Little Falls Depot
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
Meyer School In St Augusta
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Old School In Wolverton
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Enter Marlon Brando
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Old Wadena
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 48 School Near Delano
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Church of the Holy Cross
Old Brewery In Preston
Almond White and the Motley Castle
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Almelund Creamery
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hanover Bridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Cobden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome to Hanska
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Sandstone
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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