Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis was constructed between 1891 and 1893. It was...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wilder Public Baths
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Harry A. Subilia was an Italian immigrant who opened the first distillery in New Ulm, Minnesota. He...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two weeks after the James–Younger Gang raided Northfield the gang appeared at the farm of Ole...
Old Brewery In Preston
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Red Wing Iron Works
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Endion School In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Florence Town Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Dotson
Endion Depot In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome to Hanska
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Ottawa
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Cobden
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Little Falls Depot
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bend in the River Regional Park
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Meyer School In St Augusta
Green Lake Mounds
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
State Theater In Hutchinson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Franconia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hanover Bridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Wasioja
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
District 6 School in New Sweden
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Almelund Creamery
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lost Highway 61
The Le Sueur Theater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

