Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Robbinsdale Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
When I arrived at the Quadna Resort, I felt like I’d stepped back in time. Although the lodge...
District 48 School Near Delano
It really hurts to see this old schoolhouse so neglected 😟 The Franklin Township (Minnesota)...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Finding The Past In Swatara
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Almelund Creamery
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
State Theater In Hutchinson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Little Marais Inn
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Ottawa
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Dotson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Meyer School In St Augusta
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Moderne New Ulm Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Milford Monument
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The End of the Line in Currie
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hollywood Town Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Visiting Golden Gate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Enter Marlon Brando
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Franconia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Jordan Brewery Complex
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome to Hanska
Lost Highway 61
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hanover Bridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bend in the River Regional Park
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Endion School In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Old School In Wolverton
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill 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
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

