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
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s Guardians of Health
The Washburn water tower sits on a hill in the heart of the Washburn Park (commonly known as...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
District #28 School in Ramsey
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wilder Public Baths
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Greater Minnesota
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
The End of the Line in Currie
In 1899, the Des Moines Valley Railway Company began work on a plan to extend their rail line in...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
District 48 School Near Delano
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome To Old Wadena
Endion Depot In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
Remembering Quadna Resort
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Moderne New Ulm Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Old School In Wolverton
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Franconia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Le Sueur Theater
The Milford Monument
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Enter Marlon Brando
The Little Marais Inn
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Dotson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Ottawa
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Little Falls Depot
Moving Old Hibbing
Visiting Golden Gate
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Endion School In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Jordan Brewery Complex
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lost Highway 61
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bend in the River Regional Park
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hanover Bridge
The Almelund Creamery
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Church of the Holy Cross
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

