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
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wilder Public Baths
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Townhomes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ness Congregation was originally organized as the Norwegian Evangelical St. Johannes...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Endion School In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Florence Town Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Dotson
Hanover Bridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Jordan Brewery Complex
Moving Old Hibbing
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hollywood Town Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Ottawa
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
District 48 School Near Delano
The Church of the Holy Cross
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Old School In Wolverton
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Enter Marlon Brando
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Moderne New Ulm Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Little Falls Depot
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome to Hanska
The Milford Monument
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Le Sueur Theater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Almelund Creamery
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Green Lake Mounds
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
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
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
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...

