Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Landmark Center In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Robbinsdale Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Apartments
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Hanover Bridge
Hanover Bridge was constructed by the Morse Bridge Company of Youngstown, Ohio in 1885. The single...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
William Colvill — does that name ring a bell? Unless you're a Civil War history buff, this name...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Jordan Brewery Complex
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Ottawa
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Cobden
Endion School In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Milford Monument
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Green Lake Mounds
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome To Dotson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Old Brewery In Preston
Finding The Past In Swatara
Florence Town Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Endion Depot In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Franconia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Red Wing Iron Works
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hollywood Town Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
The End of the Line in Currie
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Almelund Creamery
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome to Hanska
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Moving Old Hibbing
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Ruins of Sawyer School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring Sandstone
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Little Marais Inn
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Meyer School In St Augusta
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Moderne New Ulm Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Little Falls Depot
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...

