In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The first pavilion was built on the shore of Lake Como in St. Paul in 1894. The wooden pavilion was...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wilder Public Baths
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Saint Paul Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Robbinsdale Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Apartments
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Washington County District No. 2 was formed in 1857 for the growing number of children moving into...
Moderne New Ulm Library
In 1936, a sleek, Moderne-style public library was built in New Ulm, Minnesota. The land for the...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Old Wadena
Florence Town Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 48 School Near Delano
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Sandstone
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Milford Monument
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Enter Marlon Brando
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The End of the Line in Currie
Lost Highway 61
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Old Brewery In Preston
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Franconia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hanover Bridge
Green Lake Mounds
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Wasioja
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Little Marais Inn
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Visiting Golden Gate
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
The Almelund Creamery
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Ottawa
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Duluth Homestead Project
Little Falls Depot
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

