Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Robbinsdale Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Landmark Center In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wilder Public Baths
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Archibald mill is located on the banks of the Cannon River in Dundas. Brothers John S. and...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Ottawa
The Almelund Creamery
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Franconia
Little Falls Depot
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Wasioja
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Green Lake Mounds
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lost Highway 61
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hanover Bridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Little Marais Inn
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Dotson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
District 48 School Near Delano
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Enter Marlon Brando
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion Depot In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Old Brewery In Preston
Moving Old Hibbing
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Oxford Mill Ruin
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hollywood Town Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Florence Town Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Visiting Golden Gate
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Jordan Brewery Complex
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Sandstone
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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