Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Apartments
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
First Church of Christ Scientist 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...
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Ottawa
Moderne New Ulm Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Franconia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hollywood Town Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Munger Terrace In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Milford Monument
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
State Theater In Hutchinson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Enter Marlon Brando
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Red Wing Iron Works
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome to Hanska
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Little Marais Inn
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Jordan Brewery Complex
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Finding The Past In Swatara
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Wasioja
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
District 6 School in New Sweden
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Endion School In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Oxford Mill Ruin
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
District 48 School Near Delano
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Cobden
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Le Sueur Theater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Sandstone
Lost Highway 61
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Green Lake Mounds
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
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