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 Weatherball in Minneapolis
On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, Minneapolis lost one of its most enduring landmarks--the Weatherball...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Landmark Center In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Saint Paul Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Taylor House In Le Sueur
There are quite a few examples of the gorgeous Eastlake-style architecture in Minnesota, but this...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Freemasons organized a lodge in Clearwater, Minnesota in 1858 that became known as Masonic...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lundring Service Station in Canby
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bend in the River Regional Park
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Ruins of Sawyer School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hanover Bridge
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Little Marais Inn
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Cobden
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Red Wing Iron Works
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
District 6 School in New Sweden
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Sandstone
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Le Sueur Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Dotson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Wasioja
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Franconia
State Theater In Hutchinson
Visiting Golden Gate
Florence Town Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Moderne New Ulm Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Oxford Mill Ruin
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

