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 Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Landmark Center In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Saint Paul Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Robbinsdale Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Greater Minnesota
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Planning for a new road for stagecoach travel westward from the Mississippi began in the winter of...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Milford Monument
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Finding The Past In Swatara
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Ottawa
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome to Hanska
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Church of the Holy Cross
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Old Brewery In Preston
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Wasioja
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Florence Town Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Cobden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
State Theater In Hutchinson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
District 48 School Near Delano
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Endion Depot In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Enter Marlon Brando
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Oxford Mill Ruin
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hollywood Town Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Little Marais Inn
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bend in the River Regional Park
Daniel Piper House in Medford
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Moderne New Ulm Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Green Lake Mounds
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Remembering Quadna Resort
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Sandstone
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lost Highway 61
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Dotson
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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