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
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Martha G. Ripley Hospital for Women was a pioneering institution in the history of Minnesota...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gates of Stonebridge
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Townhomes
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Robbinsdale Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Apartments
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Greater Minnesota
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Daniel Piper came to Minnesota from New Hampshire with his wife and daughter in early 1877...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hollywood Town Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Le Sueur Theater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
District 48 School Near Delano
Green Lake Mounds
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moving Old Hibbing
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hanover Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Ottawa
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion Depot In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Visiting Golden Gate
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Sandstone
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Oxford Mill Ruin
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Old Brewery In Preston
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Dotson
Remembering Quadna Resort
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Milford Monument
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Cobden
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome to Hanska
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
District 6 School in New Sweden
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Florence Town Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
State Theater In Hutchinson
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
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...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
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...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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