Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Townhomes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Apartments
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Greater Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Originally built as the second home of the First Swedish Baptist Church in 1910, the Temple Baptist...
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Oxford Mill was located on the bank of the Little Cannon River near Cannon Falls. When the mill...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
State Theater In Hutchinson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Sandstone
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Finding The Past In Swatara
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Jordan Brewery Complex
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Moderne New Ulm Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Old Brewery In Preston
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hollywood Town Hall
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Cobden
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Old School In Wolverton
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Visiting Golden Gate
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Almelund Creamery
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Munger Terrace In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lost Highway 61
Historic Franconia
The Le Sueur Theater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Green Lake Mounds
The End of the Line in Currie
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
District 48 School Near Delano
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Milford Monument
Moving Old Hibbing
Enter Marlon Brando
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Little Falls Depot
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hanover Bridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
District 6 School in New Sweden
Florence Town Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

