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...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Robbinsdale Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Around the turn of the twentieth century, Nicollet County had eight rural crossroads hamlets. While...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Shortly after midnight on November 28, 1905, the Crescent City dropped anchor in 90-feet of water...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Ottawa
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Little Marais Inn
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome to Hanska
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Bend in the River Regional Park
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Old Brewery In Preston
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Cobden
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Little Falls Depot
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Meyer School In St Augusta
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Milford Monument
The Almelund Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Moderne New Ulm Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Visiting Golden Gate
Enter Marlon Brando
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Moving Old Hibbing
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lost Highway 61
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Florence Town Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Remembering Quadna Resort
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood Town Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Church of the Holy Cross
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Ruins of Sawyer School
Endion School In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Franconia
The Le Sueur Theater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Old Wadena
Green Lake Mounds
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Wasioja
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The End of the Line in Currie
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...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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?
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

