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 Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Constructed in 1869-70, the Metropolitan Hotel once stood at the corner of Washington and Third...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Robbinsdale Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Landmark Center In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Greater Minnesota
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
William Colvill — does that name ring a bell? Unless you're a Civil War history buff, this name...
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The End of the Line in Currie
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hanover Bridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hollywood Town Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Almelund Creamery
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Old School In Wolverton
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Sandstone
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Meyer School In St Augusta
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Wandering Around The Toimi School
District 48 School Near Delano
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Franconia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Oxford Mill Ruin
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lost Highway 61
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Little Falls Depot
Moderne New Ulm Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Wasioja
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Remembering Quadna Resort
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Florence Town Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome to Hanska
Endion School In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Little Marais Inn
Moving Old Hibbing
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Red Wing Iron Works
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Finding The Past In Swatara
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 Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...

