Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Apartments
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Robbinsdale Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wilder Public Baths
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Greater Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Originally built as the second home of the First Swedish Baptist Church in 1910, the Temple Baptist...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
The Almelund Creamery
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Meyer School In St Augusta
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Sandstone
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Bend in the River Regional Park
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lost Highway 61
Historic Franconia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Oxford Mill Ruin
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Visiting Golden Gate
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Little Falls Depot
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Endion School In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Endion Depot In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Old School In Wolverton
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hollywood Town Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Le Sueur Theater
The End of the Line in Currie
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Enter Marlon Brando
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Red Wing Iron Works
District 6 School in New Sweden
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Wasioja
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Old Brewery In Preston
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Milford Monument
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
District 48 School Near Delano
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
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...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

