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
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School opened in Minneapolis in 1932. The school was named after Mary...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Townhomes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Have you ever wondered how Minnesota became known as the land of 10,000 lakes? Every Minnesotan...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
The Old School In Wolverton
District 6 School in New Sweden
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome to Hanska
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 48 School Near Delano
Green Lake Mounds
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Le Sueur Theater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Milford Monument
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Franconia
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Red Wing Iron Works
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
The End of the Line in Currie
State Theater In Hutchinson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Old Wadena
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Little Falls Depot
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Dotson
Enter Marlon Brando
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Finding The Past In Swatara
Old Brewery In Preston
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Endion School In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Wasioja
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lost Highway 61
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Almelund Creamery
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hanover Bridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Ottawa
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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