Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Names like Louis Comfort Tiffany and Gustav Stickley are well rooted in many American’s minds as...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Townhomes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wilder Public Baths
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Apartments
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State Hospital
In 1873, the State of Minnesota was looking for a way to house an increasingly problematic group of...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Around the turn of the twentieth century, Nicollet County had eight rural crossroads hamlets. While...
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Moving Old Hibbing
District 6 School in New Sweden
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Meyer School In St Augusta
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Remembering Quadna Resort
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood Town Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Endion School In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hanover Bridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Florence Town Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Little Falls Depot
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Little Marais Inn
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Finding The Past In Swatara
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome to Hanska
Jordan Brewery Complex
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Dotson
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Visiting Golden Gate
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Almelund Creamery
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Ottawa
District 48 School Near Delano
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Ruins of Sawyer School
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The End of the Line in Currie
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Old School In Wolverton
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Church of the Holy Cross
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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