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
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
It may have been luck that spared the Colonnade Hotel the same fate as so many other old downtown...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
District #28 School in Ramsey
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Robbinsdale Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Saint Paul Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Townhomes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Ottawa
The Almelund Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Red Wing Iron Works
The End of the Line in Currie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Old Brewery In Preston
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Meyer School In St Augusta
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Old Wadena
Florence Town Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Enter Marlon Brando
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
District 6 School in New Sweden
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Oxford Mill Ruin
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hanover Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Dotson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Moderne New Ulm Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Le Sueur Theater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Little Marais Inn
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Jordan Brewery Complex
Moving Old Hibbing
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Visiting Golden Gate
Bend in the River Regional Park
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Franconia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Sandstone
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Green Lake Mounds
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Old School In Wolverton
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Milford Monument
Welcome to Hanska
District 48 School Near Delano
Endion School In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses 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