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
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Robbinsdale Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Apartments
The Eight Days in May Protests
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Landmark Center In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Little Falls Depot
Construction started on the railroad depot in Little Falls in 1899. It was designed by Cass Gilbert...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Church of the Holy Cross
Old Brewery In Preston
Green Lake Mounds
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Moving Old Hibbing
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Old School In Wolverton
Hanover Bridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Red Wing Iron Works
Finding The Past In Swatara
Oxford Mill Ruin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bend in the River Regional Park
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The End of the Line in Currie
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Dotson
The Almelund Creamery
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hollywood Town Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Florence Town Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Old Wadena
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 48 School Near Delano
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Milford Monument
Exploring Sandstone
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
State Theater In Hutchinson
Jordan Brewery Complex
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Enter Marlon Brando
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Franconia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital 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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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