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 End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
In 1899, the Twin City Rapid Transit Company extended its reach of their streetcars to the...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gates of Stonebridge
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
District #28 School in Ramsey
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Townhomes
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Wilder Public Baths
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Greater Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Daniel Piper came to Minnesota from New Hampshire with his wife and daughter in early 1877...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swatara, Minnesota, started out as a logging town when several logging companies moved into the...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Meyer School In St Augusta
Moving Old Hibbing
District 48 School Near Delano
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Duluth Homestead Project
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Almelund Creamery
Red Wing Iron Works
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Franconia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Ottawa
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Le Sueur Theater
Hollywood Town Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Sandstone
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bend in the River Regional Park
Old Brewery In Preston
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hanover Bridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Florence Town Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Little Falls Depot
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lost Highway 61
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Wasioja
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Milford Monument
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
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 Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown