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
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The McKnight’s Park Avenue mansion was completed in 1892 for a total cost of nearly $36,000...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wilder Public Baths
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Greater Minnesota
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George Neuwirth operated a popular bowling alley and bar throughout the 1930s and 1940s in New Ulm...
The Milford Monument
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Little Falls Depot
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Little Marais Inn
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Ottawa
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hanover Bridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Moving Old Hibbing
The Almelund Creamery
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Endion Depot In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Remembering Quadna Resort
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Red Wing Iron Works
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Sandstone
The End of the Line in Currie
Jordan Brewery Complex
Visiting Golden Gate
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Dotson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Endion School In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
District 48 School Near Delano
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Wasioja
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Franconia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hollywood Town Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Cobden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Enter Marlon Brando
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Duluth Homestead Project
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Old School In Wolverton
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Florence Town Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

