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 Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
On March 22, 1836, Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark married Lieutenant Horatio Phillips Van Cleve a few...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Greater Minnesota
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George Neuwirth operated a popular bowling alley and bar throughout the 1930s and 1940s in New Ulm...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The childhood home of children’s book author and illustrator Wanda Gag was built in New Ulm...
The Milford Monument
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Little Marais Inn
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Sandstone
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Enter Marlon Brando
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood Town Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Green Lake Mounds
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Ottawa
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Old School In Wolverton
The Le Sueur Theater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Cobden
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
District 6 School in New Sweden
Endion School In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome To Dotson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Finding The Past In Swatara
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Old Brewery In Preston
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
State Theater In Hutchinson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bend in the River Regional Park
Oxford Mill Ruin
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Franconia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Visiting Golden Gate
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Almelund Creamery
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hanover Bridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Little Falls Depot
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome to Hanska
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The End of the Line in Currie
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Remembering Quadna Resort
Endion Depot In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Moving Old Hibbing
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lost Highway 61
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

