Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The McKnight’s Park Avenue mansion was completed in 1892 for a total cost of nearly $36,000...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Saint Paul Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gates of Stonebridge
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Landmark Center In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Apartments
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Greater Minnesota
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
This gorgeous Second Empire style home in Hastings was built for William Thompson in 1880. Thompson...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Little Falls Depot
Old Brewery In Preston
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Dotson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome to Hanska
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Almelund Creamery
Oxford Mill Ruin
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Ottawa
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Moving Old Hibbing
Hollywood Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Florence Town Hall
Hanover Bridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Red Wing Iron Works
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lost Highway 61
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Old School In Wolverton
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Little Marais Inn
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Milford Monument
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
State Theater In Hutchinson
District 48 School Near Delano
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
The Duluth Homestead Project
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Sandstone
Finding The Past In Swatara
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Franconia
The End of the Line in Currie
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...

