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
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Landmark Center In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wilder Public Baths
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Around the turn of the twentieth century, Nicollet County had eight rural crossroads hamlets. While...
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Old School In Wolverton
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Le Sueur Theater
District 48 School Near Delano
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Endion Depot In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Sandstone
Bend in the River Regional Park
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Ottawa
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The End of the Line in Currie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lost Highway 61
Historic Wasioja
The Milford Monument
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Dotson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Florence Town Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Endion School In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Red Wing Iron Works
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Cobden
Visiting Golden Gate
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Little Marais Inn
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Almelund Creamery
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome to Hanska
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Enter Marlon Brando
District 6 School in New Sweden
Remembering Quadna Resort
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Little Falls Depot
Taylor House In Le Sueur
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Church of the Holy Cross
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...

