In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Eight Days in May Protests
For many at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus, May 9, 1972 started out like any other...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Robbinsdale Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Apartments
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Townhomes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Lost Highway 61
History buffs and curiosity seekers revel in finding a piece of the past. Stumbling across...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Florence Town Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
District 6 School in New Sweden
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Finding The Past In Swatara
The End of the Line in Currie
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Dotson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Remembering Quadna Resort
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Wasioja
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Franconia
Moderne New Ulm Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Moving Old Hibbing
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Oxford Mill Ruin
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Little Falls Depot
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
State Theater In Hutchinson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome To Cobden
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hanover Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Old Brewery In Preston
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Almelund Creamery
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Randall Cooperative Creamery
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome to Hanska
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Old School In Wolverton
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses 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