Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Eight Days in May Protests
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Landmark Center In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Sandstone
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Hollywood Town Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Le Sueur Theater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
District 48 School Near Delano
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Meyer School In St Augusta
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Old Brewery In Preston
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Ottawa
The Almelund Creamery
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Florence Town Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Visiting Golden Gate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Little Falls Depot
State Theater In Hutchinson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Ruins of Sawyer School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lost Highway 61
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Taylor House In Le Sueur
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Finding The Past In Swatara
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Endion Depot In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Dotson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Duluth Homestead Project
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Milford Monument
Historic Franconia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Endion School In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bend in the River Regional Park
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Wasioja
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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