Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
The District #28 School was constructed in Ramsey in 1892 to replace a smaller, wood frame school...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Townhomes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wilder Public Baths
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Landmark Center In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Robbinsdale Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gates of Stonebridge
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Greater Minnesota
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
William Colvill — does that name ring a bell? Unless you're a Civil War history buff, this name...
Historic Wasioja
Wasioja, Minnesota, was a thriving community in the 1850s and 1860s. The village was settled in...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Finding The Past In Swatara
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lost Highway 61
Green Lake Mounds
Old Brewery In Preston
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Almelund Creamery
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Meyer School In St Augusta
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Old School In Wolverton
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Florence Town Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Ottawa
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hanover Bridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Endion School In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hollywood Town Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Dotson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Remembering Quadna Resort
Oxford Mill Ruin
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moving Old Hibbing
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
District 6 School in New Sweden
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Franconia
Red Wing Iron Works
The End of the Line in Currie
The Church of the Holy Cross
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
District 48 School Near Delano
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Little Falls Depot
The Milford Monument
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Little Marais Inn
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Sandstone
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
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...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

