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 Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Eight Days in May Protests
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wilder Public Baths
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Saint Paul Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bend in the River Regional Park is located on the former property of the Graves family. The...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
There are quite a few examples of the gorgeous Eastlake-style architecture in Minnesota, but this...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hanover Bridge
Florence Town Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Endion School In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
Oxford Mill Ruin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Almelund Creamery
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome to Hanska
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Ottawa
Red Wing Iron Works
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Brewery In Preston
Remembering Quadna Resort
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Milford Monument
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Wasioja
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Enter Marlon Brando
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Dotson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hollywood Town Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Franconia
The End of the Line in Currie
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Little Falls Depot
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Visiting Golden Gate
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central 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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...

