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 Gates of Stonebridge
In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Robbinsdale Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Townhomes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Greater Minnesota
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District Number 11 in McLeod County was first organized in 1865 to serve the predominantly Czech...
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Bend in the River Regional Park
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Sandstone
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Le Sueur Theater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Cobden
The End of the Line in Currie
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Little Falls Depot
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Wasioja
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Enter Marlon Brando
Visiting Golden Gate
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Jordan Brewery Complex
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Almelund Creamery
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Finding The Past In Swatara
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Green Lake Mounds
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Florence Town Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
District 48 School Near Delano
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Ruins of Sawyer School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Oxford Mill Ruin
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Dotson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hollywood Town Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Remembering Quadna Resort
Randall Cooperative Creamery
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...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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