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 William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wilder Public Baths
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Apartments
Robbinsdale Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
I’m sure we’ve all made typos that made us cringe once we noticed them. But most of our...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Little Falls Depot
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Almelund Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Franconia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hollywood Town Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome To Old Wadena
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Oxford Mill Ruin
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Old School In Wolverton
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Jordan Brewery Complex
Red Wing Iron Works
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Cobden
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
The Church of the Holy Cross
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hanover Bridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Sandstone
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Old Brewery In Preston
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Moderne New Ulm Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lost Highway 61
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
District 6 School in New Sweden
Visiting Golden Gate
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Le Sueur Theater
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Moving Old Hibbing
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Little Marais Inn
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
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...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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