Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Saint Paul Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Landmark Center In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Robbinsdale Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Wasioja
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Endion School In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Almelund Creamery
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Church of the Holy Cross
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Green Lake Mounds
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Little Falls Depot
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Remembering Quadna Resort
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Visiting Golden Gate
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Dotson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lost Highway 61
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hanover Bridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Moving Old Hibbing
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Cobden
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Old Brewery In Preston
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Old School In Wolverton
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Milford Monument
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Little Marais Inn
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...

