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
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Constructed in 1897 for $13,000, the First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was designed...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
District #28 School in Ramsey
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Women’s City Club In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Greater Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Arthur Orr was a 286’ steel package freighter built by the Chicago Ship Building Company. She...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Wasioja
District 6 School in New Sweden
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Ruins of Sawyer School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Meyer School In St Augusta
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Sandstone
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Visiting Golden Gate
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lost Highway 61
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Moving Old Hibbing
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Old Brewery In Preston
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Little Marais Inn
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Jordan Brewery Complex
Enter Marlon Brando
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Endion School In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Florence Town Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome to Hanska
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Le Sueur Theater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Milford Monument
Oxford Mill Ruin
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Franconia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Red Wing Iron Works
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Almelund Creamery
Little Falls Depot
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The End of the Line in Currie
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Cobden
District 48 School Near Delano
Green Lake Mounds
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

