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 Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The historic Turnblad mansion was built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan Turnblad, his wife...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Saint Paul Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Townhomes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Moderne New Ulm Library
In 1936, a sleek, Moderne-style public library was built in New Ulm, Minnesota. The land for the...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Green Lake Mounds
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Visiting Golden Gate
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Sandstone
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Little Falls Depot
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Milford Monument
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Cobden
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bend in the River Regional Park
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Le Sueur Theater
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Endion Depot In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Remembering Quadna Resort
District 48 School Near Delano
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Little Marais Inn
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Church of the Holy Cross
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Old School In Wolverton
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Finding The Past In Swatara
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Dotson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Ottawa
Moving Old Hibbing
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Brewery In Preston
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Almelund Creamery
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lost Highway 61
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

