Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Townhomes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
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...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Moving Old Hibbing
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Milford Monument
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Old Wadena
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Enter Marlon Brando
Hanover Bridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Endion School In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Red Wing Iron Works
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Dotson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
The End of the Line in Currie
Finding The Past In Swatara
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Franconia
Hollywood Town Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Cobden
Lost Highway 61
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Ottawa
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Old Brewery In Preston
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Florence Town Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
District 48 School Near Delano
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Visiting Golden Gate
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Oxford Mill Ruin
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Wasioja
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
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