Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
All of Theodore and Louise Hamm’s children stayed close to their family home and business. Most...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Townhomes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Apartments
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Robbinsdale Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gates of Stonebridge
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ness Congregation was originally organized as the Norwegian Evangelical St. Johannes...
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Old Wadena
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Franconia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Remembering Quadna Resort
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Old School In Wolverton
The Almelund Creamery
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Moderne New Ulm Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Visiting Golden Gate
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Church of the Holy Cross
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Enter Marlon Brando
Little Falls Depot
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
The Milford Monument
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hanover Bridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Oxford Mill Ruin
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Cobden
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Wasioja
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Dotson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lost Highway 61
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Sandstone
Florence Town Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
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...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
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 First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown