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
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Minneapolis has many beautiful homes, but the Gale mansion is easily one of my top three. I love...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
District #28 School in Ramsey
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
The Gates of Stonebridge
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Greater Minnesota
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
September 24, 1909 At 4:20 a.m., an off-duty worker at the Fergus Falls City Light Station woke up...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swatara, Minnesota, started out as a logging town when several logging companies moved into the...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Wasioja
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Red Wing Iron Works
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Old Brewery In Preston
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The New Ulm Company Service Station
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Franconia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lost Highway 61
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Meyer School In St Augusta
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Cobden
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Church of the Holy Cross
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Endion School In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The End of the Line in Currie
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Jordan Brewery Complex
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hanover Bridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Little Marais Inn
The Milford Monument
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Sandstone
Florence Town Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Visiting Golden Gate
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bend in the River Regional Park
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Old Wadena
Moderne New Ulm Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Enter Marlon Brando
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome to Hanska
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
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 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...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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