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
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Edwin H Hewitt was one of Minnesota’s most widely-known architects of the 20th century. Born in Red...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Robbinsdale Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
Exploring Sandstone
The city of Sandstone, Minnesota, was platted and incorporated in 1887. The area was a major hub...
Welcome To Cobden
Green Lake Mounds
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Little Marais Inn
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lost Highway 61
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Ottawa
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hollywood Town Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Almelund Creamery
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
District 48 School Near Delano
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Red Wing Iron Works
The Old School In Wolverton
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Enter Marlon Brando
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Little Falls Depot
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The End of the Line in Currie
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hanover Bridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Wasioja
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Moving Old Hibbing
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Remembering Quadna Resort
Moderne New Ulm Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Milford Monument
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
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