Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Lustron homes along Nicollet Avenue near 50th Street S in Minneapolis are among nearly 2,500 of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gates of Stonebridge
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Robbinsdale Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Townhomes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The George and Charlotte Crosby house is located just a few blocks east of downtown Duluth...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Rush City Creamery Cooperative was organized in 1907 by a group of local dairy farmers. After...
Green Lake Mounds
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Dotson
Endion School In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Ottawa
District 6 School in New Sweden
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Wasioja
District 48 School Near Delano
Lost Highway 61
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hanover Bridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Cobden
Meyer School In St Augusta
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Enter Marlon Brando
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion Depot In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The End of the Line in Currie
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Little Falls Depot
Hollywood Town Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Franconia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Visiting Golden Gate
Old Brewery In Preston
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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