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
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Horatio Alden Smith made the bulk of his fortune as the co-owner of the Smith and Wyman Sash and...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Apartments
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Townhomes
Greater Minnesota
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Rush City Creamery Cooperative was organized in 1907 by a group of local dairy farmers. After...
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Oxford Mill was located on the bank of the Little Cannon River near Cannon Falls. When the mill...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering Quadna Resort
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Little Marais Inn
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Ottawa
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Almelund Creamery
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Church of the Holy Cross
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Bend in the River Regional Park
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Meyer School In St Augusta
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome to Hanska
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Old Brewery In Preston
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Sandstone
Green Lake Mounds
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Moving Old Hibbing
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hollywood Town Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lost Highway 61
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
District 48 School Near Delano
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Enter Marlon Brando
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Old School In Wolverton
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Le Sueur Theater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Visiting Golden Gate
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Finding The Past In Swatara
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Franconia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Moderne New Ulm Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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