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 William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Robbinsdale Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Landmark Center In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Townhomes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Avenue, located on the east side of St. Cloud, became part of the Jefferson Highway system...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Franconia
Exploring Ottawa
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Little Marais Inn
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Sandstone
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Remembering Quadna Resort
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Old Brewery In Preston
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
State Theater In Hutchinson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Milford Monument
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Visiting Golden Gate
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hanover Bridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Old School In Wolverton
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Old Wadena
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Red Wing Iron Works
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Cobden
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Oxford Mill Ruin
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The End of the Line in Currie
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Little Falls Depot
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Jordan Brewery Complex
Florence Town Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Enter Marlon Brando
Ruins of Sawyer School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Wasioja
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Endion School In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome to Hanska
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Le Sueur Theater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia 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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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