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
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Eight Days in May Protests
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wilder Public Baths
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Robbinsdale Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Greater Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Sandstone
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Little Marais Inn
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The End of the Line in Currie
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hanover Bridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Cobden
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Wasioja
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Endion School In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering Quadna Resort
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 48 School Near Delano
Little Falls Depot
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Old School In Wolverton
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
District 6 School in New Sweden
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Enter Marlon Brando
State Theater In Hutchinson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Green Lake Mounds
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Ottawa
Florence Town Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Endion Depot In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hollywood Town Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
The Le Sueur Theater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

