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...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gates of Stonebridge
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Landmark Center In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Townhomes
The Saint Paul Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Robbinsdale Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Greater Minnesota
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Munger Terrace has been a landmark in Duluth’s Central Hillside neighborhood since the building was...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Dotson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Le Sueur Theater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Ottawa
Lost Highway 61
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Franconia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Florence Town Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Milford Monument
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Sandstone
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Church of the Holy Cross
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Moving Old Hibbing
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Jordan Brewery Complex
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome to Hanska
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Old Brewery In Preston
Enter Marlon Brando
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Endion Depot In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Old School In Wolverton
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Remembering Quadna Resort
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Wasioja
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hanover Bridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
State Theater In Hutchinson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Little Falls Depot
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
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 The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

