Waldmann Brewery and Wurstery is located near the Mississippi River in Saint Paul, Minnesota. It...
Twin Cities Area
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Apartments
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Robbinsdale Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Eight Days in May Protests
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Shortly after midnight on November 28, 1905, the Crescent City dropped anchor in 90-feet of water...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Wasioja
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hanover Bridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Endion School In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Ruins of Sawyer School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Sandstone
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Munger Terrace In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lost Highway 61
District 48 School Near Delano
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Old Brewery In Preston
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Ottawa
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hollywood Town Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Duluth Homestead Project
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Little Falls Depot
Visiting Golden Gate
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome to Hanska
Moving Old Hibbing
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Cobden
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Old School In Wolverton
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Enter Marlon Brando
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Meyer School In St Augusta
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Franconia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Milford Monument
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
District 6 School in New Sweden
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Jordan Brewery Complex
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

