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
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The McKnight’s Park Avenue mansion was completed in 1892 for a total cost of nearly $36,000...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wilder Public Baths
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Townhomes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Landmark Center In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Greater Minnesota
Lost Highway 61
History buffs and curiosity seekers revel in finding a piece of the past. Stumbling across...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Beaver Bay is the oldest white settlement along the North Shore of Lake Superior. It was...
The End of the Line in Currie
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Old School In Wolverton
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hollywood Town Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Enter Marlon Brando
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Franconia
The Milford Monument
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Florence Town Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Dotson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Red Wing Iron Works
Green Lake Mounds
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Endion Depot In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Remembering Quadna Resort
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Meyer School In St Augusta
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Church of the Holy Cross
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bend in the River Regional Park
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Moving Old Hibbing
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Little Marais Inn
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Little Falls Depot
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Wasioja
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Endion School In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Visiting Golden Gate
District 48 School Near Delano
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
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...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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