Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Edwin H Hewitt was one of Minnesota’s most widely-known architects of the 20th century. Born in Red...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Townhomes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Greater Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Visiting Golden Gate
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Red Wing Iron Works
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Green Lake Mounds
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Endion School In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Wasioja
Moving Old Hibbing
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Finding The Past In Swatara
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Almelund Creamery
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Little Marais Inn
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Le Sueur Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Florence Town Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Little Falls Depot
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Old Brewery In Preston
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Dotson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
District 48 School Near Delano
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hanover Bridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Sandstone
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Milford Monument
District 6 School in New Sweden
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Endion Depot In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
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...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...

