Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Saint Paul Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Townhomes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Robbinsdale Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bend in the River Regional Park
Ruins of Sawyer School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Dotson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lost Highway 61
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Le Sueur Theater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The End of the Line in Currie
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Little Falls Depot
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Red Wing Iron Works
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Jordan Brewery Complex
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Franconia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Enter Marlon Brando
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Brewery In Preston
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hanover Bridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Ottawa
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Sandstone
District 6 School in New Sweden
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
State Theater In Hutchinson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome to Hanska
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Little Marais Inn
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Green Lake Mounds
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Almelund Creamery
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Church of the Holy Cross
Endion School In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
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 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...

