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
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Townhomes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Greater Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The District Number 50 school in Essig, Minnesota, opened in 1912. Children attend this one-room...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Florence Town Hall
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Sandstone
Lost Highway 61
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Jordan Brewery Complex
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Endion School In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Franconia
The Almelund Creamery
Old Brewery In Preston
District 48 School Near Delano
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Church of the Holy Cross
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Oxford Mill Ruin
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
State Theater In Hutchinson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Milford Monument
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Visiting Golden Gate
Hollywood Town Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Little Marais Inn
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Remembering Quadna Resort
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Enter Marlon Brando
Red Wing Iron Works
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Old School In Wolverton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Meyer School In St Augusta
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome to Hanska
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Dotson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Old Wadena
Moving Old Hibbing
Green Lake Mounds
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hanover Bridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Ottawa
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...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
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