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
Wilder Public Baths
It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
District #28 School in Ramsey
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Apartments
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Greater Minnesota
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A library was first established in Two Harbors, Minnesota in 1897. A group of citizens banded...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Old School In Wolverton
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Enter Marlon Brando
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Moving Old Hibbing
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Little Falls Depot
The Almelund Creamery
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Ottawa
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Little Marais Inn
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Cobden
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Jordan Brewery Complex
Meyer School In St Augusta
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome to Hanska
The End of the Line in Currie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Old Wadena
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Red Wing Iron Works
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lost Highway 61
Finding The Past In Swatara
Remembering Quadna Resort
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Florence Town Hall
Historic Wasioja
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Duluth Homestead Project
Old Brewery In Preston
The Le Sueur Theater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hanover Bridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Milford Monument
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
State Theater In Hutchinson
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
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...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central 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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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