Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gates of Stonebridge
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Townhomes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Apartments
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Eight Days in May Protests
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Old Wadena
The townsite now known as Old Wadena was located on the Crow Wing River between the mouths of the...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
St Rose of Lima church was built in 1878. The church and its cemetery sit on over an acre of land...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hanover Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Ottawa
Moving Old Hibbing
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Finding The Past In Swatara
Enter Marlon Brando
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lost Highway 61
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Church of the Holy Cross
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Milford Monument
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Sandstone
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Endion School In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Incline Railway
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Almelund Creamery
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Little Falls Depot
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Old Brewery In Preston
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Florence Town Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Old School In Wolverton
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Wasioja
The Duluth Homestead Project
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Dotson
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hollywood Town Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Moderne New Ulm Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
District 48 School Near Delano
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
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...
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...

