Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg and his wife Dora were the owners of a jewelry store in downtown Minneapolis in the...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Apartments
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Saint Paul Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gates of Stonebridge
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Greater Minnesota
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State Hospital
In 1873, the State of Minnesota was looking for a way to house an increasingly problematic group of...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
This gorgeous Second Empire style home in Hastings was built for William Thompson in 1880. Thompson...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hanover Bridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Endion School In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Franconia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Moderne New Ulm Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Cobden
Ruins of Sawyer School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Green Lake Mounds
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Milford Monument
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Wandering Around The Toimi School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
District 6 School in New Sweden
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Wasioja
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
District 48 School Near Delano
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lost Highway 61
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Moving Old Hibbing
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Almelund Creamery
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Enter Marlon Brando
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The End of the Line in Currie
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Little Falls Depot
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hollywood Town Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Old Brewery In Preston
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Jordan Brewery Complex
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

