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

