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
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wilder Public Baths
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Landmark Center In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Robbinsdale Library
Greater Minnesota
District 48 School Near Delano
It really hurts to see this old schoolhouse so neglected 😟 The Franklin Township (Minnesota)...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Meyer School In St Augusta
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lost Highway 61
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hanover Bridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome to Hanska
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Endion School In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Dotson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Franconia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Enter Marlon Brando
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Cobden
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
The Milford Monument
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The End of the Line in Currie
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Finding The Past In Swatara
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hollywood Town Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Wasioja
Old Brewery In Preston
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Ottawa
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Little Falls Depot
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Old School In Wolverton
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Ruins of Sawyer School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Green Lake Mounds
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Florence Town Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Duluth Homestead Project
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion Depot In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Red Wing Iron Works
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...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
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