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
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Townhomes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gates of Stonebridge
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Cobden
Cobden, Minnesota, was incorporated in 1905. The little railroad town included a bank, creamery...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Freemasons organized a lodge in Clearwater, Minnesota in 1858 that became known as Masonic...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Old Wadena
Moderne New Ulm Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Jordan Brewery Complex
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Wasioja
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Little Marais Inn
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Bend in the River Regional Park
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Old Brewery In Preston
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hollywood Town Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hanover Bridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Sandstone
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Florence Town Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Oxford Mill Ruin
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Little Falls Depot
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Visiting Golden Gate
Remembering Quadna Resort
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Enter Marlon Brando
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Green Lake Mounds
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Le Sueur Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
Ruins of Sawyer School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
District 6 School in New Sweden
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The End of the Line in Currie
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 48 School Near Delano
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lost Highway 61
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Endion School In Duluth
The Milford Monument
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome to Hanska
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
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...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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