Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
District #28 School in Ramsey
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Robbinsdale Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Greater Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Endion School In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Remembering Quadna Resort
State Theater In Hutchinson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Dotson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Oxford Mill Ruin
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Florence Town Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Moderne New Ulm Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Old School In Wolverton
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Almelund Creamery
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Little Falls Depot
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Old Wadena
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hanover Bridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Franconia
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lost Highway 61
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Visiting Golden Gate
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Jordan Brewery Complex
Green Lake Mounds
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Wasioja
Enter Marlon Brando
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Sandstone
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome to Hanska
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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