In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Robbinsdale Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Saint Paul Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Apartments
Greater Minnesota
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
This old stone chapel was built at the Sunrise Funeral Home and Cemetery in 1949. Located in...
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Old Wadena
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Almelund Creamery
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome to Hanska
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Green Lake Mounds
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Little Falls Depot
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Wasioja
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Old Brewery In Preston
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Endion School In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Milford Monument
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hollywood Town Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Florence Town Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Moderne New Ulm Library
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
District 48 School Near Delano
Remembering Quadna Resort
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Ruins of Sawyer School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lost Highway 61
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lincoln Park In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Meyer School In St Augusta
Red Wing Iron Works
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bend in the River Regional Park
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Sandstone
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The End of the Line in Currie
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
State Theater In Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hanover Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
The Old School In Wolverton
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Visiting Golden Gate
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Church of the Holy Cross
Dead Good Walks
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
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