The St Paul Hotel has been the backbone of charm and elegance in downtown St Paul since it opened...
Twin Cities Area
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little was a partner in a Minneapolis-based real estate firm. He didn’t leave behind much...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Robbinsdale Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Greater Minnesota
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Early settler and local banker Edson Smith built this French Second Empire style home for his...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
One of the earliest victims of the big blow on Lake Superior in November of 1905 was the steamer...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
District 48 School Near Delano
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hanover Bridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Dotson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Little Falls Depot
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Franconia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Old Brewery In Preston
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Enter Marlon Brando
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Endion Depot In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Florence Town Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Old School In Wolverton
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Milford Monument
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Endion School In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Ottawa
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Sandstone
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Almelund Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Visiting Golden Gate
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The End of the Line in Currie
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome to Hanska
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Cobden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Wasioja
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lost Highway 61
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

