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 Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Apartments
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Eight Days in May Protests
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Robbinsdale Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wilder Public Baths
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Greater Minnesota
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The original village hall in Waverly was built in 1893. The two-story, brick and stone building sat...
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Le Sueur Theater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Cobden
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Franconia
Visiting Golden Gate
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The End of the Line in Currie
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Wasioja
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Green Lake Mounds
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
State Theater In Hutchinson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Meyer School In St Augusta
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Milford Monument
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Old School In Wolverton
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Little Falls Depot
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hanover Bridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
District 6 School in New Sweden
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome to Hanska
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Ottawa
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Moderne New Ulm Library
District 48 School Near Delano
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Church of the Holy Cross
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hollywood Town Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Jordan Brewery Complex
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Old Wadena
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Finding The Past In Swatara
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

