Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Townhomes
The Saint Paul Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Apartments
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Robbinsdale Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wilder Public Baths
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
For several years, Tenney held the distinction of being Minnesotaโs smallest town. The 2010 census...
Visiting Golden Gate
A post office was first established in Golden Gate, Minnesota, in 1868. The little town sprang up...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The End of the Line in Currie
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Wasioja
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
District 6 School in New Sweden
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Finding The Past In Swatara
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hanover Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome to Hanska
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Le Sueur Theater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Franconia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Almelund Creamery
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Little Falls Depot
The Little Marais Inn
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lost Highway 61
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Old Brewery In Preston
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Jordan Brewery Complex
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Cobden
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Red Wing Iron Works
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
State Theater In Hutchinson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Florence Town Hall
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Dotson
Bend in the River Regional Park
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Ruins of Sawyer School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion School In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring Ottawa
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Moving Old Hibbing
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taylor House In Le Sueur
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Milford Monument
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordwayโknown by her nickname, Sallyโwas born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his motherโs death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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 donโt...

