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
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Lowry Hotel opened in 1927 and was 12 floors of pure glamour. An addition was made in 1930 to...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Apartments
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Robbinsdale Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wilder Public Baths
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Arthur Orr was a 286’ steel package freighter built by the Chicago Ship Building Company. She...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Wasioja
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Endion Depot In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Duluth Homestead Project
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Milford Monument
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Little Marais Inn
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Park In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The End of the Line in Currie
Oxford Mill Ruin
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Franconia
Florence Town Hall
Welcome to Hanska
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Ottawa
Hollywood Town Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Little Falls Depot
Hanover Bridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bend in the River Regional Park
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Old School In Wolverton
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Green Lake Mounds
Jordan Brewery Complex
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Visiting Golden Gate
Red Wing Iron Works
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Cobden
Moving Old Hibbing
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Enter Marlon Brando
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
District 48 School Near Delano
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lost Highway 61
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Dotson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Sandstone
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township 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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
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...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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