Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery and Wurstery is located near the Mississippi River in Saint Paul, Minnesota. It...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Apartments
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wilder Public Baths
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Moderne New Ulm Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Dotson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Florence Town Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Enter Marlon Brando
Old Brewery In Preston
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Little Marais Inn
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome to Hanska
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Endion School In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Church of the Holy Cross
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Wasioja
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Little Falls Depot
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Oxford Mill Ruin
The End of the Line in Currie
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Daniel Piper House in Medford
District 48 School Near Delano
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Sandstone
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Visiting Golden Gate
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Almelund Creamery
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Milford Monument
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Hollywood Town Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Red Wing Iron Works
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hanover Bridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Bend in the River Regional Park
Endion Depot In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
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