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
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Apartments
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Duluth Homestead Project
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Milford Monument
Welcome to Hanska
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Church of the Holy Cross
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lost Highway 61
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Red Wing Iron Works
Moving Old Hibbing
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The End of the Line in Currie
The Almelund Creamery
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
District 6 School in New Sweden
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Le Sueur Theater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Wasioja
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Enter Marlon Brando
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Hanover Bridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Endion School In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Little Falls Depot
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Ruins of Sawyer School
Visiting Golden Gate
Bend in the River Regional Park
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
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...

