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
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wilder Public Baths
Robbinsdale Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Orpheum Theater in Duluth, Minnesota, was built on the old Temple Opera House site. The opera...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
Endion School In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Ruins of Sawyer School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Old School In Wolverton
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Enter Marlon Brando
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Little Marais Inn
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Green Lake Mounds
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
State Theater In Hutchinson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Florence Town Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Cobden
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Jordan Brewery Complex
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Little Falls Depot
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Wasioja
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Ottawa
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bend in the River Regional Park
Red Wing Iron Works
Finding The Past In Swatara
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Franconia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Sandstone
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Moderne New Ulm Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The End of the Line in Currie
Meyer School In St Augusta
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
District 6 School in New Sweden
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Hanover Bridge
Hollywood Town Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

