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 Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
District #28 School in Ramsey
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wilder Public Baths
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
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...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Ottawa
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lost Highway 61
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Little Marais Inn
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome to Hanska
District 48 School Near Delano
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hollywood Town Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Ruins of Sawyer School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Franconia
The End of the Line in Currie
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Old Brewery In Preston
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Finding The Past In Swatara
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Church of the Holy Cross
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Remembering Quadna Resort
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
State Theater In Hutchinson
Jordan Brewery Complex
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Visiting Golden Gate
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Wasioja
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bend in the River Regional Park
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Enter Marlon Brando
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Dotson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Red Wing Iron Works
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion School In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Milford Monument
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

