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
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Townhomes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
District #28 School in Ramsey
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wilder Public Baths
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Greater Minnesota
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pennsylvania-native Joseph Renshaw Brown arrived in Minnesota at the age of 14 with the Army. He...
Enter Marlon Brando
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Little Falls Depot
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lincoln Park In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood Town Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
District 48 School Near Delano
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Cobden
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Franconia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Old Wadena
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Ottawa
Lost Highway 61
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Endion School In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Wasioja
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Milford Monument
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moderne New Ulm Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
District 6 School in New Sweden
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Florence Town Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Old Brewery In Preston
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Dotson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Green Lake Mounds
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Le Sueur Theater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Almelund Creamery
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome to Hanska
Meyer School In St Augusta
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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