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 Gates of Stonebridge
In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Townhomes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Robbinsdale Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Eight Days in May Protests
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
In 1957, trucks loaded with prefabricated homes rolled along Highway 61 toward a new building site...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Churchill Methodist Church is located in present-day Brookfield Township, Minnesota. The...
The End of the Line in Currie
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Florence Town Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
District 6 School in New Sweden
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Cobden
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Wasioja
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Ottawa
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Taylor House In Le Sueur
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Meyer School In St Augusta
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood Town Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bend in the River Regional Park
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Red Wing Iron Works
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Little Falls Depot
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lost Highway 61
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hanover Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Milford Monument
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Visiting Golden Gate
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Old Brewery In Preston
Moderne New Ulm Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Jordan Brewery Complex
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Ruins of Sawyer School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Little Marais Inn
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Old Wadena
Oxford Mill Ruin
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering Quadna Resort
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
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...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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