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 Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wilder Public Baths
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Eight Days in May Protests
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Greater Minnesota
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Free Public Library in Hutchinson, Minnesota, was first organized in 1874 by early settlers of...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rumors of copper riches hidden in the North Shore's streams and hillsides had excited the...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Visiting Golden Gate
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Duluth Homestead Project
Moving Old Hibbing
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Green Lake Mounds
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Franconia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Ottawa
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Sandstone
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lost Highway 61
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Endion School In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Dotson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Old School In Wolverton
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hollywood Town Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
District 48 School Near Delano
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Endion Depot In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hanover Bridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Oxford Mill Ruin
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Old Brewery In Preston
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Little Falls Depot
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Almelund Creamery
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Old Wadena
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Cobden
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
The End of the Line in Currie
The Little Marais Inn
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Wasioja
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome to Hanska
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Jordan Brewery Complex
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
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
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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