Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Landmark Center In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Apartments
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Townhomes
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Cobden
Cobden, Minnesota, was incorporated in 1905. The little railroad town included a bank, creamery...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Franconia
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Dotson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bend in the River Regional Park
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Wasioja
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Le Sueur Theater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
District 48 School Near Delano
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Old Brewery In Preston
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Ruins of Sawyer School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lost Highway 61
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Sandstone
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Jordan Brewery Complex
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Old School In Wolverton
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion School In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Enter Marlon Brando
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
District 6 School in New Sweden
Moving Old Hibbing
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Wandering Around The Toimi School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Little Marais Inn
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Green Lake Mounds
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hanover Bridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
The Milford Monument
Little Falls Depot
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Church of the Holy Cross
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

