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...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Apartments
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Robbinsdale Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wilder Public Baths
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rumors of copper riches hidden in the North Shore's streams and hillsides had excited the...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The childhood home of children’s book author and illustrator Wanda Gag was built in New Ulm...
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Ruins of Sawyer School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Wasioja
Green Lake Mounds
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Cobden
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Sandstone
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
The Little Marais Inn
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Dotson
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Almelund Creamery
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Old School In Wolverton
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion Depot In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Red Wing Iron Works
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hanover Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Ottawa
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Moving Old Hibbing
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Le Sueur Theater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Visiting Golden Gate
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The End of the Line in Currie
Jordan Brewery Complex
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Old Brewery In Preston
Little Falls Depot
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
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...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

