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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The house at 193 N Mackubin in Saint Paul, Minnesota, was built in 1882. This Second Empire-style...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Apartments
The Eight Days in May Protests
Landmark Center In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
District #28 School in Ramsey
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wilder Public Baths
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Beaver Bay is the oldest white settlement along the North Shore of Lake Superior. It was...
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Endion School In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hanover Bridge
Historic Wasioja
Little Falls Depot
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lost Highway 61
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Jordan Brewery Complex
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Oxford Mill Ruin
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome to Hanska
The Duluth Homestead Project
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Almelund Creamery
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bend in the River Regional Park
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Dotson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Red Wing Iron Works
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Milford Monument
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
District 48 School Near Delano
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Little Marais Inn
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Church of the Holy Cross
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Ottawa
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Old School In Wolverton
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
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?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
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...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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