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
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Martha G. Ripley Hospital for Women was a pioneering institution in the history of Minnesota...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wilder Public Baths
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Robbinsdale Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Apartments
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Greater Minnesota
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
September 24, 1909 At 4:20 a.m., an off-duty worker at the Fergus Falls City Light Station woke up...
Historic Wasioja
Wasioja, Minnesota, was a thriving community in the 1850s and 1860s. The village was settled in...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lost Highway 61
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Ottawa
The Almelund Creamery
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Ruins of Sawyer School
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Dotson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering Quadna Resort
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Cobden
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Le Sueur Theater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
District 48 School Near Delano
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hollywood Town Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Green Lake Mounds
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome to Hanska
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Florence Town Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Franconia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Old School In Wolverton
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Milford Monument
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
District 6 School in New Sweden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Finding The Past In Swatara
State Theater In Hutchinson
Enter Marlon Brando
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Moderne New Ulm Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bend in the River Regional Park
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
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...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
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?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
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...

