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...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Apartments
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Saint Paul Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Townhomes
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Cobden
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Moderne New Ulm Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Moving Old Hibbing
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Jordan Brewery Complex
District 6 School in New Sweden
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Ottawa
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome to Hanska
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bend in the River Regional Park
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Endion School In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Visiting Golden Gate
The Almelund Creamery
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Dotson
Green Lake Mounds
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lost Highway 61
The Old School In Wolverton
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Wasioja
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hanover Bridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Sandstone
Little Falls Depot
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Old Wadena
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Ruins of Sawyer School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
District 48 School Near Delano
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Red Wing Iron Works
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hollywood Town Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Milford Monument
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
The Duluth Homestead Project
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
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...

