Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Originally named the Palazzo, the Colonnade Hotel opened on St. Peter Street in Saint Paul in 1888...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wilder Public Baths
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Landmark Center In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Townhomes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Apartments
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Robbinsdale Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rumors of copper riches hidden in the North Shore's streams and hillsides had excited the...
Hanover Bridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Little Marais Inn
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Ottawa
The Almelund Creamery
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Dotson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Green Lake Mounds
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
Lost Highway 61
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Red Wing Iron Works
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Le Sueur Theater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Cobden
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
District 6 School in New Sweden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Little Falls Depot
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
The End of the Line in Currie
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Florence Town Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Wasioja
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Milford Monument
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Franconia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Daniel Piper House in Medford
District 48 School Near Delano
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Endion School In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Enter Marlon Brando
The Old School In Wolverton
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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