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 Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
On March 22, 1836, Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark married Lieutenant Horatio Phillips Van Cleve a few...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Townhomes
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Apartments
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
District #28 School in Ramsey
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Greater Minnesota
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Chisago County State Bank was built in Center City in 1915. In August 1925, more than 60...
State Theater In Hutchinson
The State Theater in Hutchinson, Minnesota, opened its doors on December 28, 1937. Customers paid...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Old School In Wolverton
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Little Marais Inn
Moderne New Ulm Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Old Brewery In Preston
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Florence Town Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Green Lake Mounds
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hanover Bridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Franconia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Cobden
District 48 School Near Delano
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Wasioja
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Dotson
The Almelund Creamery
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Meyer School In St Augusta
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Enter Marlon Brando
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lost Highway 61
The Le Sueur Theater
Red Wing Iron Works
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hollywood Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Little Falls Depot
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Endion Depot In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Old Wadena
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
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...
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

