In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
This beauty was built in 1914 and is St Paul’s largest Prairie Style house at just under 3,000...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Robbinsdale Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Greater Minnesota
Historic Wasioja
Wasioja, Minnesota, was a thriving community in the 1850s and 1860s. The village was settled in...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hanover Bridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Endion School In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Little Marais Inn
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Moderne New Ulm Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Visiting Golden Gate
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Franconia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Florence Town Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Green Lake Mounds
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Finding The Past In Swatara
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Old Wadena
Jordan Brewery Complex
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Sandstone
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
District 6 School in New Sweden
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Cobden
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Ottawa
Meyer School In St Augusta
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Le Sueur Theater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lost Highway 61
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
State Theater In Hutchinson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The End of the Line in Currie
Little Falls Depot
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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