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...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wilder Public Baths
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Robbinsdale Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Saint Paul Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Taylor House In Le Sueur
There are quite a few examples of the gorgeous Eastlake-style architecture in Minnesota, but this...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Freemasons organized a lodge in Clearwater, Minnesota in 1858 that became known as Masonic...
Visiting Golden Gate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Dotson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The End of the Line in Currie
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Oxford Mill Ruin
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
State Theater In Hutchinson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lost Highway 61
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Wasioja
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Ottawa
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Green Lake Mounds
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Old Brewery In Preston
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hollywood Town Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Le Sueur Theater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hanover Bridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome to Hanska
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Almelund Creamery
Moderne New Ulm Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Old School In Wolverton
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Milford Monument
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Finding The Past In Swatara
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Cobden
District 48 School Near Delano
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Little Falls Depot
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Little Marais Inn
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Franconia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
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...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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