Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
Twin Cities Area
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Construction on the Hamm Building in downtown St Paul began in 1915 and was completed in 1920. The...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Apartments
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Townhomes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Robbinsdale Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pennsylvania-native Joseph Renshaw Brown arrived in Minnesota at the age of 14 with the Army. He...
Meyer School In St Augusta
The original District 35 (Meyer) school was a log structure built around 1868. As the population of...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
State Theater In Hutchinson
District 48 School Near Delano
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Finding The Past In Swatara
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Wasioja
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Endion School In Duluth
The Milford Monument
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The End of the Line in Currie
Florence Town Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Enter Marlon Brando
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Old School In Wolverton
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Visiting Golden Gate
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lost Highway 61
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome to Hanska
Ruins of Sawyer School
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Little Marais Inn
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Cobden
Red Wing Iron Works
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Endion Depot In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Moving Old Hibbing
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Little Falls Depot
Hanover Bridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Green Lake Mounds
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Ottawa
The Le Sueur Theater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
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...

