Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Saint Paul Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Duluth Homestead Project, also known as the Jackson Project, began under the United States...
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Endion Depot In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Dotson
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Old Brewery In Preston
Bend in the River Regional Park
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Visiting Golden Gate
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Milford Monument
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Old School In Wolverton
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Cobden
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Red Wing Iron Works
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lost Highway 61
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Remembering Quadna Resort
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Franconia
Little Falls Depot
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Almelund Creamery
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Ruins of Sawyer School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Meyer School In St Augusta
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Enter Marlon Brando
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome to Hanska
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hanover Bridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
District 6 School in New Sweden
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The End of the Line in Currie
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

