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
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
This beauty was built in 1914 and is St Paul’s largest Prairie Style house at just under 3,000...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Robbinsdale Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Settled in 1854 by Pennsylvania native Benjamin Spencer, Spencer Brook was one of the first...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Duluth Homestead Project
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
District 6 School in New Sweden
Little Falls Depot
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Remembering Quadna Resort
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Visiting Golden Gate
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Little Marais Inn
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Hanover Bridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
State Theater In Hutchinson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hollywood Town Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Ottawa
Jordan Brewery Complex
Enter Marlon Brando
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Old Wadena
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Meyer School In St Augusta
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bend in the River Regional Park
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Cobden
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Old Brewery In Preston
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Moderne New Ulm Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
The End of the Line in Currie
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Franconia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Almelund Creamery
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Red Wing Iron Works
Finding The Past In Swatara
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Moving Old Hibbing
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Milford Monument
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Dotson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome to Hanska
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Wasioja
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Old School In Wolverton
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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