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
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of Minneapolis
In an age before women had the right to vote, Elizabeth C. Quinlan was a natural entrepreneur who...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
District #28 School in Ramsey
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Apartments
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wilder Public Baths
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Greater Minnesota
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Around the turn of the twentieth century, Nicollet County had eight rural crossroads hamlets. While...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State Hospital
In 1873, the State of Minnesota was looking for a way to house an increasingly problematic group of...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Franconia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Sandstone
The Milford Monument
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Wasioja
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
District 6 School in New Sweden
Red Wing Iron Works
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hollywood Town Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Florence Town Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Old Brewery In Preston
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Dotson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Le Sueur Theater
Endion School In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome to Hanska
Hanover Bridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Moving Old Hibbing
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Jordan Brewery Complex
Ruins of Sawyer School
Moderne New Ulm Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Ottawa
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 48 School Near Delano
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Little Marais Inn
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Endion Depot In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lost Highway 61
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Little Falls Depot
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...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

