Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Townhomes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Apartments
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Landmark Center In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Have you ever wondered how Minnesota became known as the land of 10,000 lakes? Every Minnesotan...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Freemasons organized a lodge in Clearwater, Minnesota in 1858 that became known as Masonic...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hollywood Town Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
Visiting Golden Gate
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The End of the Line in Currie
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Endion Depot In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
State Theater In Hutchinson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Wasioja
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Dotson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Old School In Wolverton
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Moderne New Ulm Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Duluth Homestead Project
Florence Town Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Almelund Creamery
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Cobden
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Sandstone
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Oxford Mill Ruin
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Endion School In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Milford Monument
Exploring Ottawa
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Old Brewery In Preston
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hanover Bridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s 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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...

