In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Apartments
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Washington County District No. 2 was formed in 1857 for the growing number of children moving into...
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Moderne New Ulm Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Dotson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
State Theater In Hutchinson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Old Brewery In Preston
The Almelund Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Little Falls Depot
Endion School In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Wasioja
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Remembering Quadna Resort
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Franconia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood Town Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The End of the Line in Currie
Lost Highway 61
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Milford Monument
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome to Hanska
The Le Sueur Theater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Randall Cooperative Creamery
District 48 School Near Delano
Enter Marlon Brando
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
District 6 School in New Sweden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hanover Bridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Sandstone
Visiting Golden Gate
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Endion Depot In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
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 Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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