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 Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Lowry Hotel opened in 1927 and was 12 floors of pure glamour. An addition was made in 1930 to...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Townhomes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Wilder Public Baths
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A library was first established in Two Harbors, Minnesota in 1897. A group of citizens banded...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Churchill Methodist Church is located in present-day Brookfield Township, Minnesota. The...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Moderne New Ulm Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Green Lake Mounds
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
District 48 School Near Delano
Meyer School In St Augusta
Finding The Past In Swatara
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Moving Old Hibbing
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Visiting Golden Gate
Enter Marlon Brando
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome to Hanska
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering Quadna Resort
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lost Highway 61
The Milford Monument
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Franconia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Sandstone
Hanover Bridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Red Wing Iron Works
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The End of the Line in Currie
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Ottawa
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Almelund Creamery
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Old School In Wolverton
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Little Marais Inn
Bend in the River Regional Park
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hollywood Town Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Wasioja
Munger Terrace In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Ruins of Sawyer School
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

