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

