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
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Robbinsdale Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Apartments
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wilder Public Baths
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Greater Minnesota
The End of the Line in Currie
In 1899, the Des Moines Valley Railway Company began work on a plan to extend their rail line in...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Washington County District No. 2 was formed in 1857 for the growing number of children moving into...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Randall Cooperative Creamery
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Enter Marlon Brando
Green Lake Mounds
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lost Highway 61
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Le Sueur Theater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Wasioja
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Red Wing Iron Works
The Little Marais Inn
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Duluth Homestead Project
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Old Wadena
Meyer School In St Augusta
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Franconia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hanover Bridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hollywood Town Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Almelund Creamery
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Florence Town Hall
Little Falls Depot
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Sandstone
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Old School In Wolverton
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Milford Monument
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 48 School Near Delano
Moving Old Hibbing
Visiting Golden Gate
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
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...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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