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
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
On March 22, 1836, Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark married Lieutenant Horatio Phillips Van Cleve a few...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Eight Days in May Protests
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Greater Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
When I arrived at the Quadna Resort, I felt like I’d stepped back in time. Although the lodge...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
After a devastating forest fire obliterated the villages of Finlayson, Hinckley, Miller, Mission...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Wasioja
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Old Wadena
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Sandstone
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome to Hanska
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Finding The Past In Swatara
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lost Highway 61
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Duluth Homestead Project
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Little Marais Inn
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Oxford Mill Ruin
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bend in the River Regional Park
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hanover Bridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Moving Old Hibbing
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Dotson
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hollywood Town Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
Little Falls Depot
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Ottawa
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Red Wing Iron Works
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Old School In Wolverton
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Franconia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
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 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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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