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...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Greater Minnesota
Florence Town Hall
Florence Town Hall is located along Highway 61 in Frontenac Station. The land to build the town...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
St Rose of Lima church was built in 1878. The church and its cemetery sit on over an acre of land...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Franconia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Almelund Creamery
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bend in the River Regional Park
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Ottawa
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Enter Marlon Brando
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Church of the Holy Cross
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Dotson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Endion School In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Finding The Past In Swatara
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Old Brewery In Preston
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Meyer School In St Augusta
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Endion Depot In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hollywood Town Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Little Marais Inn
Jordan Brewery Complex
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Little Falls Depot
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Le Sueur Theater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Wasioja
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome to Hanska
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Red Wing Iron Works
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Old School In Wolverton
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Cobden
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Visiting Golden Gate
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Milford Monument
Green Lake Mounds
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
District 48 School Near Delano
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Sandstone
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

