Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium was the first medical hospital in Anoka, Minnesota. Dr. James F. Kline opened the...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Robbinsdale Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Wilder Public Baths
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Greater Minnesota
State Theater In Hutchinson
The State Theater in Hutchinson, Minnesota, opened its doors on December 28, 1937. Customers paid...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Franconia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Green Lake Mounds
Hanover Bridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Visiting Golden Gate
Hollywood Town Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome to Hanska
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bend in the River Regional Park
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Enter Marlon Brando
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Ottawa
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Old Brewery In Preston
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Old School In Wolverton
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Dotson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Finding The Past In Swatara
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
The Almelund Creamery
The End of the Line in Currie
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lost Highway 61
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Cobden
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Duluth Homestead Project
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Florence Town Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Wandering Around The Toimi School
District 48 School Near Delano
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Wasioja
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Milford Monument
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Little Marais Inn
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Endion School In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

