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
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Landmark Center In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Eight Days in May Protests
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Robbinsdale Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wilder Public Baths
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Apartments
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Townhomes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Greater Minnesota
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
You can’t drive through Zumbrota, Minnesota, without stopping at the covered bridge. It’s located...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Have you ever wondered how Minnesota became known as the land of 10,000 lakes? Every Minnesotan...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Cobden
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hanover Bridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Franconia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Green Lake Mounds
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Dotson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hollywood Town Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Sandstone
The Milford Monument
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Almelund Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Remembering Quadna Resort
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion School In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Old School In Wolverton
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Old Wadena
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Wandering Around The Toimi School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Red Wing Iron Works
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome to Hanska
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lost Highway 61
The Church of the Holy Cross
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Old Brewery In Preston
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Almond White and the Motley Castle
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
District 48 School Near Delano
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Little Marais Inn
Moderne New Ulm Library
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
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...

