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 Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Apartments
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Townhomes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Robbinsdale Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gates of Stonebridge
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Saint Paul Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The public library in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota was built in 1913 with a $10,000 grant from Andrew...
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Green Lake Mounds
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Wasioja
The Almelund Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Franconia
Enter Marlon Brando
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion Depot In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Moderne New Ulm Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Visiting Golden Gate
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Milford Monument
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Dotson
The Old School In Wolverton
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Red Wing Iron Works
Little Falls Depot
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lost Highway 61
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Sandstone
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Church of the Holy Cross
Moving Old Hibbing
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hanover Bridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Cobden
Endion School In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome to Hanska
Hollywood Town Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Old Wadena
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Little Marais Inn
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Le Sueur Theater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
State Theater In Hutchinson
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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