Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
District #28 School in Ramsey
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Robbinsdale Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Landmark Center In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Englanders who settled in the St Croix Valley were drawn there because of the thick, wild...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Endion Depot In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
District 6 School in New Sweden
Finding The Past In Swatara
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Franconia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Little Marais Inn
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Old Wadena
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Sandstone
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hollywood Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Duluth Homestead Project
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Ottawa
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Almelund Creamery
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Little Falls Depot
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Dotson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome to Hanska
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Old Brewery In Preston
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Visiting Golden Gate
Green Lake Mounds
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Milford Monument
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
District 48 School Near Delano
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Cobden
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion School In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Le Sueur Theater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
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...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

