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 Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
On March 22, 1836, Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark married Lieutenant Horatio Phillips Van Cleve a few...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Townhomes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Eight Days in May Protests
Robbinsdale Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Greater Minnesota
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Munger Terrace has been a landmark in Duluth’s Central Hillside neighborhood since the building was...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Oxford Mill Ruin
State Theater In Hutchinson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bend in the River Regional Park
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Green Lake Mounds
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Florence Town Hall
Little Falls Depot
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Ottawa
The Milford Monument
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Moderne New Ulm Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Enter Marlon Brando
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hanover Bridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Visiting Golden Gate
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Sandstone
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Dotson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Lost Highway 61
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Remembering Quadna Resort
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Old Brewery In Preston
Endion Depot In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
District 48 School Near Delano
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Le Sueur Theater
The Little Marais Inn
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Ruins of Sawyer School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Endion School In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Lundring Service Station in Canby
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Moving Old Hibbing
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland 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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

