Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Saint Paul Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Townhomes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
The Almelund Creamery
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Old Brewery In Preston
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Old School In Wolverton
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
District 6 School in New Sweden
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Munger Terrace In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hanover Bridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Enter Marlon Brando
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome to Hanska
Hollywood Town Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Cobden
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Church of the Holy Cross
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Franconia
Oxford Mill Ruin
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Milford Monument
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lost Highway 61
Remembering Quadna Resort
Meyer School In St Augusta
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Little Falls Depot
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Finding The Past In Swatara
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Sandstone
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Old Wadena
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jordan Brewery Complex
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
District 48 School Near Delano
Bend in the River Regional Park
Green Lake Mounds
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Endion School In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The End of the Line in Currie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Wasioja
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Ottawa
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
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
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland 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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
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