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
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis was one of the rare mills in the city that had four finished...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Robbinsdale Library
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Eight Days in May Protests
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wilder Public Baths
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Sandstone
The city of Sandstone, Minnesota, was platted and incorporated in 1887. The area was a major hub...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Ottawa
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Green Lake Mounds
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Red Wing Iron Works
Enter Marlon Brando
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Milford Monument
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome to Hanska
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Old Wadena
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Cobden
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Moderne New Ulm Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Old Brewery In Preston
Moving Old Hibbing
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Wasioja
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Almelund Creamery
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Little Marais Inn
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Old School In Wolverton
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Little Falls Depot
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Franconia
District 48 School Near Delano
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Endion School In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Finding The Past In Swatara
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

