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
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The first branch library in the Minneapolis Public Library system was built in 1893-1894 and is one...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Apartments
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Robbinsdale Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wilder Public Baths
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Greater Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Milford Monument
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Oxford Mill Ruin
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood Town Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Cobden
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
State Theater In Hutchinson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Almelund Creamery
Visiting Golden Gate
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lost Highway 61
District 48 School Near Delano
Florence Town Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The End of the Line in Currie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Old School In Wolverton
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Brewery In Preston
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Green Lake Mounds
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome to Hanska
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Ruins of Sawyer School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Sandstone
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Ottawa
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Endion School In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Little Falls Depot
Moderne New Ulm Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Wasioja
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Little Marais Inn
Hanover Bridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Church of the Holy Cross
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

