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 Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Robbinsdale Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Saint Paul Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Greater Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Red Wing Iron Works
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Sandstone
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The End of the Line in Currie
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Moving Old Hibbing
The Church of the Holy Cross
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Duluth Homestead Project
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Dotson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Little Marais Inn
Ruins of Sawyer School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Milford Monument
State Theater In Hutchinson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Almelund Creamery
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Cobden
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Ottawa
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Wasioja
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome to Hanska
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hanover Bridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Green Lake Mounds
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Old Brewery In Preston
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Visiting Golden Gate
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Endion School In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Jordan Brewery Complex
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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