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
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Townhomes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Landmark Center In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Wilder Public Baths
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Greater Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Bally Blacksmith Shop opened in 1911 when Sam Bally left his job at a sawmill to open his own...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Visiting Golden Gate
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Oxford Mill Ruin
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
District 48 School Near Delano
Old Brewery In Preston
The Almelund Creamery
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Meyer School In St Augusta
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome to Hanska
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Milford Monument
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bend in the River Regional Park
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Enter Marlon Brando
Little Falls Depot
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Dotson
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Moderne New Ulm Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Jordan Brewery Complex
Remembering Quadna Resort
Green Lake Mounds
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Little Marais Inn
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Red Wing Iron Works
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hanover Bridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Old School In Wolverton
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The End of the Line in Currie
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Franconia
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lost Highway 61
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Florence Town Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Sandstone
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
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...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

