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
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
World-renowned author F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in an apartment on the second floor of this...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Landmark Center In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Apartments
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Greater Minnesota
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Lincoln Branch of the Duluth Public Library opened in 1917 thanks to $30,000 from Andrew...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
Moderne New Ulm Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Endion Depot In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Visiting Golden Gate
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Meyer School In St Augusta
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
District 6 School in New Sweden
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Endion School In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Oxford Mill Ruin
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Enter Marlon Brando
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Red Wing Iron Works
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
State Theater In Hutchinson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Little Marais Inn
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Duluth Homestead Project
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Franconia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome to Hanska
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Le Sueur Theater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Moving Old Hibbing
Little Falls Depot
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Cobden
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Ottawa
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hanover Bridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hollywood Town Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Almelund Creamery
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Dotson
The Church of the Holy Cross
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...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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