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 Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Lowry Hotel opened in 1927 and was 12 floors of pure glamour. An addition was made in 1930 to...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Robbinsdale Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wilder Public Baths
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Greater Minnesota
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
September 24, 1909 At 4:20 a.m., an off-duty worker at the Fergus Falls City Light Station woke up...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Washington County District No. 2 was formed in 1857 for the growing number of children moving into...
Moderne New Ulm Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hanover Bridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome to Hanska
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Sandstone
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Old Wadena
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
District 6 School in New Sweden
Old Brewery In Preston
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Florence Town Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Visiting Golden Gate
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Little Falls Depot
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Old School In Wolverton
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Dotson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Duluth Homestead Project
The End of the Line in Currie
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hollywood Town Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Milford Monument
The Le Sueur Theater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Daniel Piper House in Medford
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Cobden
The Little Marais Inn
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Ottawa
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Franconia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...

