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
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Women’s City Club In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Apartments
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
District #28 School in Ramsey
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Robbinsdale Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Geldner Sawmill stands on a narrow strip of land that separates Lake Jefferson and German Lake...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry D. Huff was a land speculator who built a brick and stone Italian Villa-style house on a...
The Almelund Creamery
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Jordan Brewery Complex
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Ottawa
Little Falls Depot
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Church of the Holy Cross
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Oxford Mill Ruin
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Wasioja
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome to Hanska
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Little Marais Inn
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Dotson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
District 48 School Near Delano
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lost Highway 61
Visiting Golden Gate
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Endion School In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
The Milford Monument
Historic Franconia
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
State Theater In Hutchinson
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Duluth Homestead Project
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Sandstone
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
District 6 School in New Sweden
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Le Sueur Theater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hollywood Town Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hanover Bridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Moderne New Ulm Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Old Brewery In Preston
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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