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
District #28 School in Ramsey
The District #28 School was constructed in Ramsey in 1892 to replace a smaller, wood frame school...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Townhomes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Robbinsdale Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
In 1909, just eight years after this school was built in Sandstone, lightning struck. Sadly, the...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bend in the River Regional Park is located on the former property of the Graves family. The...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Dotson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hanover Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Florence Town Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Franconia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lost Highway 61
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Cobden
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Green Lake Mounds
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome to Hanska
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Old Brewery In Preston
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
The Le Sueur Theater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Finding The Past In Swatara
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Wasioja
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Old School In Wolverton
District 48 School Near Delano
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering Quadna Resort
Ruins of Sawyer School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Milford Monument
Wandering Around The Toimi School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
State Theater In Hutchinson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Red Wing Iron Works
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Ottawa
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Oxford Mill Ruin
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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