The St Paul Hotel has been the backbone of charm and elegance in downtown St Paul since it opened...
Twin Cities Area
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Apartments
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Robbinsdale Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Landmark Center In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Historic Wasioja
Wasioja, Minnesota, was a thriving community in the 1850s and 1860s. The village was settled in...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
If you’ve been to the Mille Lacs area of Minnesota, there’s a good chance you’ve...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Franconia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Enter Marlon Brando
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Duluth Homestead Project
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Endion School In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Old School In Wolverton
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Almelund Creamery
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hollywood Town Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Ruins of Sawyer School
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Ottawa
Visiting Golden Gate
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Remembering Quadna Resort
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Sandstone
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
District 48 School Near Delano
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Hanover Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Old Brewery In Preston
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Finding The Past In Swatara
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Daniel Piper House in Medford
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Le Sueur Theater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Little Marais Inn
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Moving Old Hibbing
The Milford Monument
Jordan Brewery Complex
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome to Hanska
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Red Wing Iron Works
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
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...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

