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
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Robbinsdale Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Apartments
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Shortly after midnight on November 28, 1905, the Crescent City dropped anchor in 90-feet of water...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Ok, stick with me here. Can you remember how your elementary school smelled? I can. Vividly. A hint...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Dotson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Green Lake Mounds
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome to Hanska
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Sandstone
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Franconia
Enter Marlon Brando
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lost Highway 61
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Endion School In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Ottawa
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Old Brewery In Preston
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Milford Monument
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Little Falls Depot
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Cobden
Florence Town Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Visiting Golden Gate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Moving Old Hibbing
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Red Wing Iron Works
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Jordan Brewery Complex
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Church of the Holy Cross
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Duluth Homestead Project
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Little Marais Inn
Ruins of Sawyer School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Endion Depot In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses 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