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 Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Townhomes
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wilder Public Baths
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
District #28 School in Ramsey
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Robbinsdale Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Eight Days in May Protests
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
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...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
District 6 School in New Sweden
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Wasioja
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Dotson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
District 48 School Near Delano
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Ruins of Sawyer School
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Sandstone
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Florence Town Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Moving Old Hibbing
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Franconia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood Town Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Church of the Holy Cross
Endion School In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Ottawa
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Jordan Brewery Complex
Visiting Golden Gate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The End of the Line in Currie
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Almelund Creamery
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Milford Monument
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Old Brewery In Preston
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Enter Marlon Brando
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Cobden
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
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 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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