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 Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Townhomes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Eight Days in May Protests
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
William J Mayo was the older of the two Mayo brothers who, along with five partners, founded the...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Finding The Past In Swatara
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The End of the Line in Currie
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
State Theater In Hutchinson
Meyer School In St Augusta
Oxford Mill Ruin
Enter Marlon Brando
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Little Marais Inn
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome to Hanska
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Visiting Golden Gate
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Cobden
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Endion School In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Dotson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood Town Hall
Hanover Bridge
Lost Highway 61
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Ruins of Sawyer School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Ottawa
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Green Lake Mounds
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Milford Monument
The Almelund Creamery
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Wasioja
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
District 48 School Near Delano
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Florence Town Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Brewery In Preston
District 6 School in New Sweden
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Jordan Brewery Complex
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Sandstone
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
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...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

