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
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Martha G. Ripley Hospital for Women was a pioneering institution in the history of Minnesota...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Saint Paul Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Landmark Center In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wilder Public Baths
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Eight Days in May Protests
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Townhomes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Greater Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The original village hall in Waverly was built in 1893. The two-story, brick and stone building sat...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Red Wing Iron Works
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hanover Bridge
The Le Sueur Theater
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Florence Town Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Wasioja
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Remembering Quadna Resort
Moving Old Hibbing
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Dotson
Green Lake Mounds
The Almelund Creamery
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Franconia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Enter Marlon Brando
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lost Highway 61
The Milford Monument
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hollywood Town Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Cobden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Visiting Golden Gate
District 48 School Near Delano
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Daniel Piper House in Medford
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
State Theater In Hutchinson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Duluth Homestead Project
Finding The Past In Swatara
Old Brewery In Preston
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Old School In Wolverton
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Endion School In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Sandstone
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome to Hanska
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of 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