St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
Twin Cities Area
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
District #28 School in Ramsey
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Apartments
Wilder Public Baths
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Greater Minnesota
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Built in 1926, the New Ulm Company Service Station is the best remaining example in a series of...
Meyer School In St Augusta
The original District 35 (Meyer) school was a log structure built around 1868. As the population of...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Oxford Mill Ruin
Wandering Around The Toimi School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Enter Marlon Brando
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Little Marais Inn
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Florence Town Hall
Lost Highway 61
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Franconia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Sandstone
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Old School In Wolverton
Jordan Brewery Complex
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Ottawa
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Wasioja
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Cobden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Almelund Creamery
The Duluth Homestead Project
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Endion School In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
District 48 School Near Delano
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Brewery In Preston
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome to Hanska
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Moving Old Hibbing
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Dotson
Visiting Golden Gate
The Milford Monument
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Moderne New Ulm Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Little Falls Depot
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Ruins of Sawyer School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hollywood Town Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

