In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Robbinsdale Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Saint Paul Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Apartments
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
District 6 School in New Sweden
The District 6 school in New Sweden Township stands in a field surrounded by tall stalks of corn in...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Wasioja
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hanover Bridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Moving Old Hibbing
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Ottawa
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hollywood Town Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Old School In Wolverton
District 48 School Near Delano
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lost Highway 61
The Almelund Creamery
Visiting Golden Gate
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Florence Town Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Endion School In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Jordan Brewery Complex
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Le Sueur Theater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Old Brewery In Preston
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Moderne New Ulm Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome to Hanska
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Little Marais Inn
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Franconia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Milford Monument
Finding The Past In Swatara
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lundring Service Station in Canby
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Little Falls Depot
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Cobden
Red Wing Iron Works
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Duluth Homestead Project
The End of the Line in Currie
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Meyer School In St Augusta
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Endion Depot In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
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...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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