Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gates of Stonebridge
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wilder Public Baths
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Greater Minnesota
The Milford Monument
This monument was created in memory of the 53 women, men, and children that were killed in Milford...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
Historic Wasioja
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hanover Bridge
Moving Old Hibbing
The Little Marais Inn
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Ottawa
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The End of the Line in Currie
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Almelund Creamery
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Ruins of Sawyer School
Green Lake Mounds
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
District 48 School Near Delano
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Old Brewery In Preston
Jordan Brewery Complex
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Florence Town Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Little Falls Depot
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bend in the River Regional Park
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Old School In Wolverton
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Red Wing Iron Works
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Endion School In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hollywood Town Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion Depot In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Daniel Piper House in Medford
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Dotson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lost Highway 61
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Cobden
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Church of the Holy Cross
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Visiting Golden Gate
The Le Sueur Theater
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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