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
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Minneapolis has many beautiful homes, but the Gale mansion is easily one of my top three. I love...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Apartments
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ness Congregation was originally organized as the Norwegian Evangelical St. Johannes...
The Almelund Creamery
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Sandstone
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Endion School In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lost Highway 61
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Red Wing Iron Works
Ruins of Sawyer School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome to Hanska
Moving Old Hibbing
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Dotson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bend in the River Regional Park
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The End of the Line in Currie
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Wasioja
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Enter Marlon Brando
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Green Lake Mounds
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Endion Depot In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Finding The Past In Swatara
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hollywood Town Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Old Wadena
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Meyer School In St Augusta
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Little Falls Depot
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Milford Monument
State Theater In Hutchinson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Old School In Wolverton
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Oxford Mill Ruin
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Le Sueur Theater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
District 48 School Near Delano
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City