Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The first branch library in the Minneapolis Public Library system was built in 1893-1894 and is one...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Apartments
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Landmark Center In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
District #28 School in Ramsey
Robbinsdale Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
This gorgeous Second Empire style home in Hastings was built for William Thompson in 1880. Thompson...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Meyer School In St Augusta
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Green Lake Mounds
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Old School In Wolverton
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Jordan Brewery Complex
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Duluth Homestead Project
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Endion School In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hollywood Town Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Sandstone
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Dotson
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lost Highway 61
Remembering Quadna Resort
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Red Wing Iron Works
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Ottawa
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
District 48 School Near Delano
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Enter Marlon Brando
Moderne New Ulm Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Wasioja
Florence Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hanover Bridge
Historic Franconia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
The Almelund Creamery
District 6 School in New Sweden
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Moving Old Hibbing
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
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 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?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
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...

