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 Gates of Stonebridge
In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Apartments
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Saint Paul Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Townhomes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wilder Public Baths
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Milford Monument
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
The Old School In Wolverton
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Sandstone
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Church of the Holy Cross
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Daniel Piper House in Medford
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Ottawa
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Remembering Quadna Resort
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Moderne New Ulm Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lost Highway 61
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood Town Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Old Brewery In Preston
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Oxford Mill Ruin
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Endion School In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Almelund Creamery
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Little Falls Depot
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome to Hanska
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The End of the Line in Currie
Florence Town Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
District 48 School Near Delano
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Duluth Homestead Project
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
District 6 School in New Sweden
Finding The Past In Swatara
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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?
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

