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 Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis was constructed between 1891 and 1893. It was...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Robbinsdale Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Townhomes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Greater Minnesota
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
District 48 School Near Delano
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Visiting Golden Gate
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Meyer School In St Augusta
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Cobden
Red Wing Iron Works
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Remembering Quadna Resort
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Endion School In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Ruins of Sawyer School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Enter Marlon Brando
Moving Old Hibbing
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Old Brewery In Preston
Moderne New Ulm Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lost Highway 61
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hanover Bridge
The Milford Monument
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Old School In Wolverton
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Sandstone
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Dotson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Florence Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Duluth Homestead Project
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Ottawa
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Little Marais Inn
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Little Falls Depot
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hollywood Town Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Green Lake Mounds
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Franconia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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