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
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Saint Paul Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Townhomes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Apartments
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Greater Minnesota
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Planning for a new road for stagecoach travel westward from the Mississippi began in the winter of...
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...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Meyer School In St Augusta
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Wandering Around The Toimi School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Moderne New Ulm Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Dotson
The Milford Monument
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lost Highway 61
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Florence Town Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Almelund Creamery
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Old Brewery In Preston
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Le Sueur Theater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Jordan Brewery Complex
Visiting Golden Gate
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Sandstone
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Ruins of Sawyer School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Old School In Wolverton
The Church of the Holy Cross
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
The Little Marais Inn
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion Depot In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Green Lake Mounds
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Moving Old Hibbing
District 48 School Near Delano
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome to Hanska
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
State Theater In Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The End of the Line in Currie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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