Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
All of Theodore and Louise Hamm’s children stayed close to their family home and business. Most...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Apartments
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Robbinsdale Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wilder Public Baths
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gates of Stonebridge
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge (Svenska Mission Kyrka i Sodre Maple Ridge)...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Milford Monument
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Almelund Creamery
Visiting Golden Gate
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The End of the Line in Currie
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Sandstone
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Meyer School In St Augusta
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Little Marais Inn
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Wasioja
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Little Falls Depot
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bend in the River Regional Park
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hollywood Town Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Endion Depot In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Ottawa
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Enter Marlon Brando
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Moving Old Hibbing
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome to Hanska
Florence Town Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Hanover Bridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Dotson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Endion School In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Oxford Mill Ruin
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Cobden
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Franconia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
State Theater In Hutchinson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
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...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
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...

