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
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Townhomes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Robbinsdale Library
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Greater Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Daniel Piper came to Minnesota from New Hampshire with his wife and daughter in early 1877...
Visiting Golden Gate
A post office was first established in Golden Gate, Minnesota, in 1868. The little town sprang up...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Old School In Wolverton
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Florence Town Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Ottawa
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Little Falls Depot
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion School In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Meyer School In St Augusta
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Moving Old Hibbing
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The End of the Line in Currie
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome to Hanska
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
State Theater In Hutchinson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Le Sueur Theater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bend in the River Regional Park
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Milford Monument
The Church of the Holy Cross
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lost Highway 61
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Cobden
Hanover Bridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Enter Marlon Brando
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Wasioja
Old Brewery In Preston
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Green Lake Mounds
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
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