Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s Guardians of Health
The Washburn water tower sits on a hill in the heart of the Washburn Park (commonly known as...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Townhomes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wilder Public Baths
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Robbinsdale Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Welcome to Hanska
Hanska was supposed to be a quick stop on my way from Mankato to Sleepy Eye. I planned to get a few...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Ruins of Sawyer School
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lost Highway 61
Endion Depot In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Florence Town Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bend in the River Regional Park
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Cobden
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood Town Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Wasioja
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Old School In Wolverton
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Endion School In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Duluth Homestead Project
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Franconia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Moving Old Hibbing
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Randall Cooperative Creamery
District 6 School in New Sweden
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Dotson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The End of the Line in Currie
Red Wing Iron Works
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lincoln Park In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Old Wadena
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Church of the Holy Cross
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Visiting Golden Gate
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hanover Bridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Ottawa
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Old Brewery In Preston
Finding The Past In Swatara
Little Falls Depot
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

