The St Paul Hotel has been the backbone of charm and elegance in downtown St Paul since it opened...
Twin Cities Area
The Saint Paul Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Enter Marlon Brando
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Moderne New Ulm Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Franconia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Milford Monument
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Finding The Past In Swatara
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hollywood Town Hall
Little Falls Depot
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Old Brewery In Preston
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Visiting Golden Gate
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The End of the Line in Currie
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Ottawa
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Le Sueur Theater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Little Marais Inn
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Dotson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome to Hanska
State Theater In Hutchinson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Old School In Wolverton
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lost Highway 61
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Wandering Around The Toimi School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Remembering Quadna Resort
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Endion School In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Duluth Homestead Project
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Old Wadena
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill 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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...

