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
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Construction on the Hamm Building in downtown St Paul began in 1915 and was completed in 1920. The...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Townhomes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wilder Public Baths
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Robbinsdale Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Greater Minnesota
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
William J Mayo was the older of the two Mayo brothers who, along with five partners, founded the...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Old School In Wolverton
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Enter Marlon Brando
Finding The Past In Swatara
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Old Brewery In Preston
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Meyer School In St Augusta
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Oxford Mill Ruin
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Red Wing Iron Works
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Jordan Brewery Complex
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Dotson
Little Falls Depot
District 6 School in New Sweden
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Le Sueur Theater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Endion School In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Green Lake Mounds
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hollywood Town Hall
Hanover Bridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Moving Old Hibbing
Moderne New Ulm Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Florence Town Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Little Marais Inn
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Incline Railway
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Old Wadena
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome to Hanska
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Sandstone
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Wasioja
State Theater In Hutchinson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
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
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
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...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

