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
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Townhomes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Eight Days in May Protests
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wilder Public Baths
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Beaver Bay is the oldest white settlement along the North Shore of Lake Superior. It was...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Endion School In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Franconia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Old Brewery In Preston
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Almelund Creamery
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hollywood Town Hall
Hanover Bridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Cobden
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Endion Depot In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
District 48 School Near Delano
Ruins of Sawyer School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Milford Monument
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Little Marais Inn
Visiting Golden Gate
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Oxford Mill Ruin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Red Wing Iron Works
Green Lake Mounds
Lost Highway 61
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Florence Town Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Wasioja
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome to Hanska
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
District 6 School in New Sweden
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Ottawa
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Moving Old Hibbing
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Le Sueur Theater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Duluth Homestead Project
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...

