Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s Guardians of Health
The Washburn water tower sits on a hill in the heart of the Washburn Park (commonly known as...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Eight Days in May Protests
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Greater Minnesota
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Freemasons organized a lodge in Clearwater, Minnesota in 1858 that became known as Masonic...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
District 48 School Near Delano
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Little Falls Depot
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Red Wing Iron Works
The End of the Line in Currie
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Old Wadena
Moderne New Ulm Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Sandstone
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Dotson
Hollywood Town Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Jordan Brewery Complex
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hanover Bridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Franconia
Exploring Ottawa
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Endion School In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Green Lake Mounds
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Enter Marlon Brando
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Milford Monument
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome to Hanska
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Duluth Homestead Project
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Wasioja
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Florence Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Finding The Past In Swatara
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
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...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate 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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...

