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