Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Eight Days in May Protests
District #28 School in Ramsey
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Townhomes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wilder Public Baths
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Apartments
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Robbinsdale Library
Greater Minnesota
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District Number 11 in McLeod County was first organized in 1865 to serve the predominantly Czech...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pennsylvania-native Joseph Renshaw Brown arrived in Minnesota at the age of 14 with the Army. He...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hollywood Town Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Incline Railway
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Dotson
Visiting Golden Gate
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Old School In Wolverton
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Wasioja
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
District 48 School Near Delano
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Old Brewery In Preston
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Finding The Past In Swatara
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Sandstone
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Franconia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
State Theater In Hutchinson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lost Highway 61
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Little Marais Inn
Jordan Brewery Complex
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Church of the Holy Cross
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Milford Monument
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome to Hanska
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Moving Old Hibbing
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Ottawa
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
District 6 School in New Sweden
Enter Marlon Brando
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Cobden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Little Falls Depot
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Red Wing Iron Works
Hanover Bridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Dead Good Walks
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...

