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
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Apartments
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wilder Public Baths
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Eight Days in May Protests
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Freemasons organized a lodge in Clearwater, Minnesota in 1858 that became known as Masonic...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Originally built as the second home of the First Swedish Baptist Church in 1910, the Temple Baptist...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
District 6 School in New Sweden
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Milford Monument
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
The End of the Line in Currie
Moving Old Hibbing
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
District 48 School Near Delano
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Oxford Mill Ruin
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Visiting Golden Gate
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lincoln Park In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Lost Highway 61
Hanover Bridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Church of the Holy Cross
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring Ottawa
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Old Wadena
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Wasioja
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Enter Marlon Brando
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Old Brewery In Preston
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jordan Brewery Complex
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Little Marais Inn
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Cobden
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Almelund Creamery
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome to Hanska
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Le Sueur Theater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
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...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
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 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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
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...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor 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