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
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The McKnight’s Park Avenue mansion was completed in 1892 for a total cost of nearly $36,000...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Townhomes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Women’s City Club In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry D. Huff was a land speculator who built a brick and stone Italian Villa-style house on a...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hollywood Town Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Le Sueur Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Milford Monument
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Green Lake Mounds
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Enter Marlon Brando
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Wasioja
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Almelund Creamery
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Dotson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The End of the Line in Currie
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Old School In Wolverton
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Oxford Mill Ruin
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Little Falls Depot
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Ottawa
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lost Highway 61
Welcome to Hanska
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Little Marais Inn
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bend in the River Regional Park
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Florence Town Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Cobden
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hanover Bridge
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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