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
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The first pavilion was built on the shore of Lake Como in St. Paul in 1894. The wooden pavilion was...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gates of Stonebridge
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Apartments
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Greater Minnesota
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
I saw this pretty old farmhouse streak by my window as I was driving on I-35 and knew right away...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
In 1957, trucks loaded with prefabricated homes rolled along Highway 61 toward a new building site...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Sandstone
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Old Wadena
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Church of the Holy Cross
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Little Marais Inn
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Moving Old Hibbing
Lost Highway 61
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Old School In Wolverton
Little Falls Depot
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Visiting Golden Gate
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hanover Bridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion Depot In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Green Lake Mounds
The Almelund Creamery
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Moderne New Ulm Library
District 48 School Near Delano
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Endion School In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Franconia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Oxford Mill Ruin
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Cobden
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Jordan Brewery Complex
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
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