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
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Constructed in 1897 for $13,000, the First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was designed...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Eight Days in May Protests
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Landmark Center In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Planning for a new road for stagecoach travel westward from the Mississippi began in the winter of...
Remembering Quadna Resort
The End of the Line in Currie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Moving Old Hibbing
The Old School In Wolverton
Ruins of Sawyer School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Green Lake Mounds
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Endion Depot In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Incline Railway
District 48 School Near Delano
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome to Hanska
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Milford Monument
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Le Sueur Theater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion School In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Dotson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Church of the Holy Cross
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Moderne New Ulm Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Franconia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Wasioja
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Old Wadena
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lost Highway 61
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Cobden
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Almelund Creamery
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hollywood Town Hall
Florence Town Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Meyer School In St Augusta
Old Brewery In Preston
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Little Falls Depot
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Visiting Golden Gate
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
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...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

