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
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
This beauty was built in 1914 and is St Paul’s largest Prairie Style house at just under 3,000...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Eight Days in May Protests
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wilder Public Baths
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Apartments
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Landmark Center In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
Greater Minnesota
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Harry A. Subilia was an Italian immigrant who opened the first distillery in New Ulm, Minnesota. He...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The West Bridge in Madelia, Minnesota, was built in 1908. It is the earliest remaining example of a...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Old School In Wolverton
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Sandstone
Florence Town Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Moving Old Hibbing
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lost Highway 61
Meyer School In St Augusta
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Enter Marlon Brando
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Cobden
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Old Brewery In Preston
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Finding The Past In Swatara
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Ottawa
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hanover Bridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Little Marais Inn
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Milford Monument
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The End of the Line in Currie
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Moderne New Ulm Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
State Theater In Hutchinson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Green Lake Mounds
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Le Sueur Theater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hollywood Town Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Red Wing Iron Works
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
District 6 School in New Sweden
Little Falls Depot
Historic Wasioja
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Almelund Creamery
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Visiting Golden Gate
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
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...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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