Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
This beauty was built in 1914 and is St Paul’s largest Prairie Style house at just under 3,000...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wilder Public Baths
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Landmark Center In St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gates of Stonebridge
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Planning for a new road for stagecoach travel westward from the Mississippi began in the winter of...
The Old School In Wolverton
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Franconia
Welcome to Hanska
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The End of the Line in Currie
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Remembering Quadna Resort
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Old Wadena
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hollywood Town Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Meyer School In St Augusta
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Endion Depot In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Moving Old Hibbing
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Almelund Creamery
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lost Highway 61
Red Wing Iron Works
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hanover Bridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Wasioja
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Milford Monument
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Visiting Golden Gate
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Sandstone
The Le Sueur Theater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Old Brewery In Preston
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Little Marais Inn
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

