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
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Robbinsdale Library
Wilder Public Baths
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gates of Stonebridge
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Townhomes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The George and Charlotte Crosby house is located just a few blocks east of downtown Duluth...
Moderne New Ulm Library
In 1936, a sleek, Moderne-style public library was built in New Ulm, Minnesota. The land for the...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome to Hanska
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Cobden
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Endion School In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Sandstone
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Randall Cooperative Creamery
State Theater In Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lost Highway 61
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Meyer School In St Augusta
Old Brewery In Preston
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Little Marais Inn
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Ottawa
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The End of the Line in Currie
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Almelund Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Le Sueur Theater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Dotson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Little Falls Depot
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Milford Monument
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Red Wing Iron Works
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hanover Bridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moving Old Hibbing
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
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...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

