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 Gates of Stonebridge
In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Robbinsdale Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Greater Minnesota
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
In 1872, Joseph Schmucker took over operation of Friton Brewery, which was the first brewery to...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
If you’ve been to the Mille Lacs area of Minnesota, there’s a good chance you’ve...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Milford Monument
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 6 School in New Sweden
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Old Brewery In Preston
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Green Lake Mounds
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Little Marais Inn
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Red Wing Iron Works
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Almelund Creamery
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hollywood Town Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome to Hanska
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
State Theater In Hutchinson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Oxford Mill Ruin
Florence Town Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Little Falls Depot
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Franconia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Remembering Quadna Resort
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Ottawa
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Le Sueur Theater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Enter Marlon Brando
District 48 School Near Delano
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Dotson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Ruins of Sawyer School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Endion Depot In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Endion School In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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