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 Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George H. Christian was a manager at the Washburn-Crosby Company in Minneapolis who worked out a...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Eight Days in May Protests
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wilder Public Baths
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Saint Paul Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gates of Stonebridge
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Apartments
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Ottawa
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Ruins of Sawyer School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lost Highway 61
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome to Hanska
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hollywood Town Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Wasioja
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Old Brewery In Preston
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
The End of the Line in Currie
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moderne New Ulm Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion School In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Green Lake Mounds
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
The Milford Monument
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hanover Bridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Old Wadena
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Red Wing Iron Works
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

