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
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Landmark Center In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Apartments
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Early settler and local banker Edson Smith built this French Second Empire style home for his...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Old Wadena
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Daniel Piper House in Medford
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Little Marais Inn
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Red Wing Iron Works
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Franconia
Hanover Bridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
District 6 School in New Sweden
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Old School In Wolverton
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Milford Monument
Welcome to Hanska
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Wasioja
Moving Old Hibbing
Florence Town Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Ruins of Sawyer School
Visiting Golden Gate
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Dotson
Meyer School In St Augusta
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Endion School In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Sandstone
Green Lake Mounds
Old Brewery In Preston
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bend in the River Regional Park
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hollywood Town Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lundring Service Station in Canby
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The End of the Line in Currie
The Almelund Creamery
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
State Theater In Hutchinson
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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