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
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Robbinsdale Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Apartments
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Bally Blacksmith Shop opened in 1911 when Sam Bally left his job at a sawmill to open his own...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Moving Old Hibbing
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hanover Bridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
District 48 School Near Delano
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
District 6 School in New Sweden
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hollywood Town Hall
Lost Highway 61
The Le Sueur Theater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Jordan Brewery Complex
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Endion School In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Church of the Holy Cross
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Little Falls Depot
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Moderne New Ulm Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The End of the Line in Currie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome to Hanska
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Milford Monument
Meyer School In St Augusta
Green Lake Mounds
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Visiting Golden Gate
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Old Brewery In Preston
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Finding The Past In Swatara
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Franconia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Sandstone
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Remembering Quadna Resort
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Almelund Creamery
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
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