Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Landmark Center In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
District #28 School in Ramsey
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Townhomes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Apartments
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
I saw this pretty old farmhouse streak by my window as I was driving on I-35 and knew right away...
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Church of the Holy Cross in Dundas is a Gothic-style church built in 1868. John S. Archibald of...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Red Wing Iron Works
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Franconia
Remembering Quadna Resort
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Almelund Creamery
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Wasioja
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Moving Old Hibbing
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Sandstone
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Meyer School In St Augusta
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
District 48 School Near Delano
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Little Marais Inn
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Enter Marlon Brando
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lost Highway 61
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The End of the Line in Currie
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Visiting Golden Gate
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hanover Bridge
Welcome to Hanska
Little Falls Depot
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Moderne New Ulm Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Jordan Brewery Complex
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Cobden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hollywood Town Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Wandering Around The Toimi School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Milford Monument
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Old School In Wolverton
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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