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
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Gates of Stonebridge
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Saint Paul Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Townhomes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Greater Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
When I arrived at the Quadna Resort, I felt like I’d stepped back in time. Although the lodge...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Freemasons organized a lodge in Clearwater, Minnesota in 1858 that became known as Masonic...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Old Wadena
District 48 School Near Delano
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
State Theater In Hutchinson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Little Falls Depot
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Endion Depot In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Dotson
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Cobden
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Milford Monument
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood Town Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bend in the River Regional Park
Old Brewery In Preston
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hanover Bridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Sandstone
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Duluth Homestead Project
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
District 6 School in New Sweden
Red Wing Iron Works
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Ottawa
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Meyer School In St Augusta
Florence Town Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Little Marais Inn
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The End of the Line in Currie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Jordan Brewery Complex
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Visiting Golden Gate
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Franconia
Green Lake Mounds
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Wasioja
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...

