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
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Horatio Alden Smith made the bulk of his fortune as the co-owner of the Smith and Wyman Sash and...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Robbinsdale Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
District #28 School in Ramsey
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Saint Paul Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gates of Stonebridge
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Florence Town Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
District 6 School in New Sweden
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Wasioja
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Endion School In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Cobden
Hollywood Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Red Wing Iron Works
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Green Lake Mounds
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Oxford Mill Ruin
Meyer School In St Augusta
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Ottawa
Little Falls Depot
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Little Marais Inn
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Sandstone
Moderne New Ulm Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Finding The Past In Swatara
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Almelund Creamery
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lost Highway 61
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Old Wadena
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Enter Marlon Brando
Bend in the River Regional Park
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Daniel Piper House in Medford
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Old School In Wolverton
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Franconia
The End of the Line in Currie
Hanover Bridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central 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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...

