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
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance Building In...
The Germania Life Insurance Building was built in 1889 at Fourth Street and Minnesota in downtown...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Robbinsdale Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gates of Stonebridge
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Townhomes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State Hospital
In 1873, the State of Minnesota was looking for a way to house an increasingly problematic group of...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Endion Depot In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Old Wadena
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Little Marais Inn
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Almelund Creamery
Moving Old Hibbing
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Milford Monument
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The End of the Line in Currie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Franconia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Visiting Golden Gate
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Cobden
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hanover Bridge
Florence Town Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bend in the River Regional Park
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Randall Cooperative Creamery
District 48 School Near Delano
Moderne New Ulm Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
Hollywood Town Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Ottawa
The Church of the Holy Cross
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Finding The Past In Swatara
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Wasioja
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Dotson
Lost Highway 61
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Meyer School In St Augusta
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...

