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 Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis was founded in 1907 by 39 of the city’s most influential women.This...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Landmark Center In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Greater Minnesota
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Built in 1898, the West Riverside School was originally known as District #38 School. Isanti County...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Pine Tree Lumber Company was established in Little Falls in 1890. Located on the banks of the...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Endion School In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Ottawa
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Visiting Golden Gate
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Old Brewery In Preston
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Almelund Creamery
Moving Old Hibbing
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Little Falls Depot
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Endion Depot In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Wasioja
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The End of the Line in Currie
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Old Wadena
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hanover Bridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Finding The Past In Swatara
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
State Theater In Hutchinson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Cobden
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lost Highway 61
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Franconia
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Green Lake Mounds
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

