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
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The first branch library in the Minneapolis Public Library system was built in 1893-1894 and is one...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wilder Public Baths
Greater Minnesota
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Memories are made at the lake. Whether you’re lucky enough to go every weekend in the summer...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pennsylvania-native Joseph Renshaw Brown arrived in Minnesota at the age of 14 with the Army. He...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hollywood Town Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Almond White and the Motley Castle
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome to Hanska
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
District 6 School in New Sweden
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Little Marais Inn
Ruins of Sawyer School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hanover Bridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Dotson
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Sandstone
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Visiting Golden Gate
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Almelund Creamery
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Ottawa
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Cobden
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Franconia
The Old School In Wolverton
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The End of the Line in Currie
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lost Highway 61
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bend in the River Regional Park
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Old Brewery In Preston
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Remembering Quadna Resort
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Wasioja
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City 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 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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
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...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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