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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Robbinsdale Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Saint Paul Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Apartments
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rumors of copper riches hidden in the North Shore's streams and hillsides had excited the...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Beaver Bay is the oldest white settlement along the North Shore of Lake Superior. It was...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Little Marais Inn
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Dotson
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Endion Depot In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Ottawa
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
District 48 School Near Delano
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Little Falls Depot
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hollywood Town Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
State Theater In Hutchinson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Florence Town Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Franconia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Sandstone
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Ruins of Sawyer School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Enter Marlon Brando
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Red Wing Iron Works
The Milford Monument
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Le Sueur Theater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Church of the Holy Cross
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Green Lake Mounds
The End of the Line in Currie
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Visiting Golden Gate
Hanover Bridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Old Wadena
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Old Brewery In Preston
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Wasioja
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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