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 Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
On March 22, 1836, Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark married Lieutenant Horatio Phillips Van Cleve a few...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wilder Public Baths
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Robbinsdale Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
You can’t drive through Zumbrota, Minnesota, without stopping at the covered bridge. It’s located...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome to Hanska
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Moderne New Ulm Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Almelund Creamery
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Franconia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Wandering Around The Toimi School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hanover Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Dotson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Meyer School In St Augusta
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Green Lake Mounds
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hollywood Town Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Milford Monument
Old Brewery In Preston
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Little Marais Inn
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Ottawa
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
State Theater In Hutchinson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Oxford Mill Ruin
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Visiting Golden Gate
District 48 School Near Delano
The End of the Line in Currie
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Finding The Past In Swatara
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bend in the River Regional Park
Little Falls Depot
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

