Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Located in Robbinsdale, the international-style Terrace Theatre opened on May 23, 1951. At the...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Townhomes
District #28 School in Ramsey
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Oxford Mill was located on the bank of the Little Cannon River near Cannon Falls. When the mill...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Ottawa
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Moderne New Ulm Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Old Brewery In Preston
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bend in the River Regional Park
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Old School In Wolverton
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Franconia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Red Wing Iron Works
Florence Town Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Almelund Creamery
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The End of the Line in Currie
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Wasioja
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
State Theater In Hutchinson
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wandering Around The Toimi School
District 48 School Near Delano
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Endion Depot In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Sandstone
Visiting Golden Gate
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Munger Terrace In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hollywood Town Hall
The Little Marais Inn
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome to Hanska
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Le Sueur Theater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Cobden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Endion School In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Milford Monument
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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