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
Landmark Center In St Paul
Landmark Center in St Paul, Minnesota, was dedicated in 1902 and originally served as the Federal...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Apartments
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Robbinsdale Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wilder Public Baths
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Most of us wouldn’t consider a 13,000 square foot mansion situated on a six-acre wooded lot with...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Freemasons organized a lodge in Clearwater, Minnesota in 1858 that became known as Masonic...
Green Lake Mounds
The Old School In Wolverton
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Remembering Quadna Resort
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The End of the Line in Currie
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Endion School In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Little Falls Depot
The Almelund Creamery
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Cobden
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Old Brewery In Preston
Finding The Past In Swatara
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Oxford Mill Ruin
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
State Theater In Hutchinson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hanover Bridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lost Highway 61
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jordan Brewery Complex
Red Wing Iron Works
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bend in the River Regional Park
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
District 48 School Near Delano
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Wasioja
Ruins of Sawyer School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Ottawa
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Milford Monument
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Enter Marlon Brando
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Little Marais Inn
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Visiting Golden Gate
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Franconia
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown