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 Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Landmark Center In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Saint Paul Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wilder Public Baths
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Greater Minnesota
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
I saw this pretty old farmhouse streak by my window as I was driving on I-35 and knew right away...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion Depot In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The End of the Line in Currie
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Endion School In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Finding The Past In Swatara
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Wasioja
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Little Falls Depot
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Ottawa
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lost Highway 61
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Red Wing Iron Works
Taylor House In Le Sueur
State Theater In Hutchinson
Visiting Golden Gate
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Moderne New Ulm Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Cobden
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Old School In Wolverton
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Ruins of Sawyer School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Franconia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
The Little Marais Inn
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Florence Town Hall
Green Lake Mounds
The Le Sueur Theater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hollywood Town Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
District 48 School Near Delano
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Sandstone
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Almelund Creamery
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hanover Bridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Duluth Homestead Project
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Church of the Holy Cross
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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