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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Townhomes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Eight Days in May Protests
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Robbinsdale Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Saint Paul Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Originally built as the second home of the First Swedish Baptist Church in 1910, the Temple Baptist...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
District 6 School in New Sweden
Red Wing Iron Works
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Moving Old Hibbing
The Church of the Holy Cross
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome to Hanska
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Le Sueur Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Old School In Wolverton
The Duluth Homestead Project
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Franconia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Visiting Golden Gate
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Wasioja
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Ruins of Sawyer School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lost Highway 61
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Old Wadena
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Dotson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The End of the Line in Currie
Endion School In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Cobden
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Finding The Past In Swatara
Endion Depot In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Green Lake Mounds
District 48 School Near Delano
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Taylor House In Le Sueur
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hanover Bridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

