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 the Extraordinary in University Grove
University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Eight Days in May Protests
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gates of Stonebridge
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Apartments
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Meyer School In St Augusta
The original District 35 (Meyer) school was a log structure built around 1868. As the population of...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Rush City Creamery Cooperative was organized in 1907 by a group of local dairy farmers. After...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Moderne New Ulm Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Dotson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Almelund Creamery
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Le Sueur Theater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Wasioja
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Oxford Mill Ruin
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hanover Bridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Jordan Brewery Complex
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The End of the Line in Currie
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Franconia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
Red Wing Iron Works
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hollywood Town Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Lost Highway 61
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Old Brewery In Preston
Moving Old Hibbing
The Old School In Wolverton
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Visiting Golden Gate
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Little Marais Inn
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome to Hanska
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

