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...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Robbinsdale Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Adolph Biermann house in Rochester is the oldest documented structure in the Mayowood Historic...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Franconia
Enter Marlon Brando
Ruins of Sawyer School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome to Hanska
Lost Highway 61
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Cobden
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Church of the Holy Cross
Little Falls Depot
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Old Brewery In Preston
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Green Lake Mounds
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Visiting Golden Gate
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
District 48 School Near Delano
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Oxford Mill Ruin
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Hollywood Town Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Dotson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hanover Bridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Florence Town Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Wasioja
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Sandstone
The New Ulm Company Service Station
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Milford Monument
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Almelund Creamery
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Jordan Brewery Complex
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Ottawa
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown