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
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
Robbinsdale Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Eight Days in May Protests
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Townhomes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Greater Minnesota
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Settled in 1854 by Pennsylvania native Benjamin Spencer, Spencer Brook was one of the first...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Franconia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Dotson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Ottawa
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
The End of the Line in Currie
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
District 6 School in New Sweden
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Incline Railway
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Visiting Golden Gate
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Welcome to Hanska
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Le Sueur Theater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Cobden
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Church of the Holy Cross
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Endion School In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Milford Monument
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Almelund Creamery
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Ruins of Sawyer School
Little Falls Depot
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hanover Bridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Old School In Wolverton
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Jordan Brewery Complex
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Green Lake Mounds
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Red Wing Iron Works
Florence Town Hall
Historic Wasioja
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
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...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown