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
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Robbinsdale Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Townhomes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Greater Minnesota
Little Falls Depot
Construction started on the railroad depot in Little Falls in 1899. It was designed by Cass Gilbert...
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Oxford Mill was located on the bank of the Little Cannon River near Cannon Falls. When the mill...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Wasioja
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Almelund Creamery
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Little Marais Inn
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Sandstone
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Visiting Golden Gate
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
District 48 School Near Delano
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Moving Old Hibbing
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Florence Town Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Endion School In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Franconia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Meyer School In St Augusta
Daniel Piper House in Medford
District 6 School in New Sweden
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Le Sueur Theater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Cobden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Church of the Holy Cross
Red Wing Iron Works
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Milford Monument
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
Ruins of Sawyer School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The End of the Line in Currie
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Green Lake Mounds
Hanover Bridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hollywood Town Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Old School In Wolverton
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lost Highway 61
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Enter Marlon Brando
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

