In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Construction on the Hamm Building in downtown St Paul began in 1915 and was completed in 1920. The...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Saint Paul Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Apartments
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Townhomes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
Welcome to Hanska
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Oxford Mill Ruin
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Franconia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Le Sueur Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Wasioja
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Moving Old Hibbing
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The End of the Line in Currie
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Dotson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Florence Town Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Almelund Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Ottawa
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lost Highway 61
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hollywood Town Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Randall Cooperative Creamery
State Theater In Hutchinson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Old Wadena
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Little Falls Depot
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Green Lake Mounds
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
District 48 School Near Delano
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Old School In Wolverton
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Sandstone
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Enter Marlon Brando
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Finding The Past In Swatara
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
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...
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...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
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