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...
Wilder Public Baths
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Apartments
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
In 1957, trucks loaded with prefabricated homes rolled along Highway 61 toward a new building site...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Sandstone
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Finding The Past In Swatara
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Old School In Wolverton
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
District 48 School Near Delano
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Franconia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hollywood Town Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Little Falls Depot
The End of the Line in Currie
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Red Wing Iron Works
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Wasioja
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Almelund Creamery
The Le Sueur Theater
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Little Marais Inn
Green Lake Mounds
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome to Hanska
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Milford Monument
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Florence Town Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
State Theater In Hutchinson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hanover Bridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Endion School In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Old Brewery In Preston
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Visiting Golden Gate
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Ruins of Sawyer School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lost Highway 61
Oxford Mill Ruin
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Ottawa
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
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
Old Brewery In Preston