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
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Robbinsdale Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Greater Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bend in the River Regional Park is located on the former property of the Graves family. The...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Oxford Mill Ruin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Le Sueur Theater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
The Almelund Creamery
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Moderne New Ulm Library
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome to Hanska
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Red Wing Iron Works
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Franconia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
District 48 School Near Delano
Old Brewery In Preston
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Little Falls Depot
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Visiting Golden Gate
The End of the Line in Currie
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Ruins of Sawyer School
Endion Depot In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hanover Bridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Sandstone
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Church of the Holy Cross
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Moving Old Hibbing
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Old Wadena
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lost Highway 61
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Enter Marlon Brando
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
District 6 School in New Sweden
Remembering Quadna Resort
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Green Lake Mounds
Wandering Around The Toimi School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Milford Monument
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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