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