Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Edwin H Hewitt was one of Minnesota’s most widely-known architects of the 20th century. Born in Red...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Townhomes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Apartments
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
I’m sure we’ve all made typos that made us cringe once we noticed them. But most of our...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Cobden
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring Ottawa
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
State Theater In Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bend in the River Regional Park
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Sandstone
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Moderne New Ulm Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Wasioja
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Jordan Brewery Complex
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome to Hanska
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Little Falls Depot
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
District 48 School Near Delano
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Green Lake Mounds
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lost Highway 61
The Little Marais Inn
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Red Wing Iron Works
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Enter Marlon Brando
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Duluth Homestead Project
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hanover Bridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The End of the Line in Currie
The Almelund Creamery
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Le Sueur Theater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Finding The Past In Swatara
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

