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 Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was founded in January 1897. The church...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wilder Public Baths
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Apartments
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Visiting Golden Gate
A post office was first established in Golden Gate, Minnesota, in 1868. The little town sprang up...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry D. Huff was a land speculator who built a brick and stone Italian Villa-style house on a...
Old Brewery In Preston
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome to Hanska
Red Wing Iron Works
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Remembering Quadna Resort
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Endion School In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Milford Monument
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Florence Town Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jordan Brewery Complex
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hanover Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Old School In Wolverton
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The End of the Line in Currie
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Little Marais Inn
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Franconia
Green Lake Mounds
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Little Falls Depot
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Le Sueur Theater
District 48 School Near Delano
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Cobden
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
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