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
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Apartments
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Townhomes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Chisago County State Bank was built in Center City in 1915. In August 1925, more than 60...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State Hospital
In 1873, the State of Minnesota was looking for a way to house an increasingly problematic group of...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Moving Old Hibbing
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Green Lake Mounds
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Dotson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Almelund Creamery
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome to Hanska
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Cobden
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Ottawa
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bend in the River Regional Park
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Franconia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Old School In Wolverton
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Old Brewery In Preston
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Old Wadena
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Milford Monument
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Endion Depot In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Florence Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hollywood Town Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hanover Bridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lost Highway 61
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
The Little Marais Inn
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

