Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Townhomes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gates of Stonebridge
Robbinsdale Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wilder Public Baths
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Travelers come upon the Stewart Creek stone-arch bridge in a bend of an unpaved section of Skyline...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rumors of copper riches hidden in the North Shore's streams and hillsides had excited the...
The End of the Line in Currie
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Green Lake Mounds
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Finding The Past In Swatara
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Ruins of Sawyer School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Le Sueur Theater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Wasioja
Welcome to Hanska
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Dotson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Endion School In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Church of the Holy Cross
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Enter Marlon Brando
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Visiting Golden Gate
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Jordan Brewery Complex
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Franconia
District 48 School Near Delano
The Milford Monument
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Ottawa
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Lost Highway 61
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Little Marais Inn
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Florence Town Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hanover Bridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Cobden
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
District 6 School in New Sweden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

