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...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Townhomes
Landmark Center In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lundring Service Station in Canby
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Old School In Wolverton
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Old Brewery In Preston
Hollywood Town Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Le Sueur Theater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Franconia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Ottawa
The Milford Monument
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Cobden
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Finding The Past In Swatara
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Red Wing Iron Works
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Moving Old Hibbing
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
State Theater In Hutchinson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Little Marais Inn
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Endion School In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Duluth Homestead Project
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Visiting Golden Gate
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Wasioja
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lost Highway 61
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Moderne New Ulm Library
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

