In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s Guardians of Health
The Washburn water tower sits on a hill in the heart of the Washburn Park (commonly known as...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Robbinsdale Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
District #28 School in Ramsey
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
District 6 School in New Sweden
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Jordan Brewery Complex
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Old Wadena
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Cobden
The Almelund Creamery
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Ottawa
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hanover Bridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 48 School Near Delano
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome to Hanska
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Milford Monument
State Theater In Hutchinson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Bend in the River Regional Park
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lost Highway 61
Historic Franconia
The Little Marais Inn
Little Falls Depot
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Duluth Homestead Project
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Old School In Wolverton
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Oxford Mill Ruin
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The End of the Line in Currie
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Green Lake Mounds
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Enter Marlon Brando
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Florence Town Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Visiting Golden Gate
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hollywood Town Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Church of the Holy Cross
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Wasioja
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Sandstone
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Endion School In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...

