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
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
In 1899, the Twin City Rapid Transit Company extended its reach of their streetcars to the...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Landmark Center In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wilder Public Baths
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Saint Paul Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Scottish immigrant James G Craigie settled in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, along with his wife...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Endion Depot In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Moving Old Hibbing
Lost Highway 61
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hanover Bridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome to Hanska
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Florence Town Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Franconia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hollywood Town Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
District 6 School in New Sweden
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Milford Monument
Little Falls Depot
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Sandstone
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Old School In Wolverton
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Ottawa
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Finding The Past In Swatara
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Red Wing Iron Works
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Incline Railway
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Cobden
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Almelund Creamery
Remembering Quadna Resort
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Ruins of Sawyer School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
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...

