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...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Robbinsdale Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Townhomes
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Greater Minnesota
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
After a devastating forest fire obliterated the villages of Finlayson, Hinckley, Miller, Mission...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Ottawa
Wandering Around The Toimi School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Enter Marlon Brando
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Finding The Past In Swatara
Green Lake Mounds
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Endion School In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome to Hanska
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Franconia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
District 6 School in New Sweden
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hanover Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Old Brewery In Preston
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
The End of the Line in Currie
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hollywood Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Meyer School In St Augusta
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Visiting Golden Gate
Lost Highway 61
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bend in the River Regional Park
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Milford Monument
Exploring Sandstone
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Dotson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Ruins of Sawyer School
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Almelund Creamery
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
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