In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Townhomes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Apartments
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Greater Minnesota
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
This old stone chapel was built at the Sunrise Funeral Home and Cemetery in 1949. Located in...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pennsylvania-native Joseph Renshaw Brown arrived in Minnesota at the age of 14 with the Army. He...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Remembering Quadna Resort
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Old Brewery In Preston
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The End of the Line in Currie
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hollywood Town Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Sandstone
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Endion Depot In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Finding The Past In Swatara
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Enter Marlon Brando
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome to Hanska
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
Little Falls Depot
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Green Lake Mounds
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Lost Highway 61
Hanover Bridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Moving Old Hibbing
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
District 6 School in New Sweden
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bend in the River Regional Park
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Ottawa
The Milford Monument
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Franconia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Almelund Creamery
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

