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...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Apartments
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wilder Public Baths
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Robbinsdale Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Freemasons organized a lodge in Clearwater, Minnesota in 1858 that became known as Masonic...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Rush City Creamery Cooperative was organized in 1907 by a group of local dairy farmers. After...
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The New Ulm Company Service Station
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Sandstone
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
District 48 School Near Delano
Bend in the River Regional Park
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Oxford Mill Ruin
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hollywood Town Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Jordan Brewery Complex
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Moving Old Hibbing
The Duluth Homestead Project
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Ruins of Sawyer School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Milford Monument
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lost Highway 61
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome to Hanska
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The End of the Line in Currie
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Franconia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Little Marais Inn
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Little Falls Depot
State Theater In Hutchinson
Green Lake Mounds
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Florence Town Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Wasioja
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Dotson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Le Sueur Theater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Church of the Holy Cross
Visiting Golden Gate
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Endion School In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Old School In Wolverton
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Enter Marlon Brando
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hanover Bridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
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