In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Apartments
Robbinsdale Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Townhomes
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
District #28 School in Ramsey
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Greater Minnesota
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Ok, stick with me here. Can you remember how your elementary school smelled? I can. Vividly. A hint...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Enter Marlon Brando
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Endion Depot In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The End of the Line in Currie
Oxford Mill Ruin
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
District 6 School in New Sweden
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
District 48 School Near Delano
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Wasioja
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hanover Bridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Green Lake Mounds
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Little Falls Depot
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Ottawa
Lost Highway 61
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Red Wing Iron Works
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Duluth Homestead Project
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Almelund Creamery
The Milford Monument
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Sandstone
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Le Sueur Theater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moving Old Hibbing
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome to Hanska
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Finding The Past In Swatara
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Little Marais Inn
Remembering Quadna Resort
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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