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 Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
In March 1963, the Twin Cities were rocked by a shocking and brutal crime – the murder of Carol...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Saint Paul Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Townhomes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Historic Wasioja
Wasioja, Minnesota, was a thriving community in the 1850s and 1860s. The village was settled in...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Travelers come upon the Stewart Creek stone-arch bridge in a bend of an unpaved section of Skyline...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Enter Marlon Brando
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
The Milford Monument
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The End of the Line in Currie
District 48 School Near Delano
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hollywood Town Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome to Hanska
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Moving Old Hibbing
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Florence Town Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
District 6 School in New Sweden
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Franconia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Old Wadena
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Le Sueur Theater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hanover Bridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Ottawa
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Oxford Mill Ruin
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Cobden
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Little Falls Depot
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
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...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown