In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
In 1899, the Twin City Rapid Transit Company extended its reach of their streetcars to the...
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Landmark Center In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Ok, stick with me here. Can you remember how your elementary school smelled? I can. Vividly. A hint...
Little Falls Depot
Construction started on the railroad depot in Little Falls in 1899. It was designed by Cass Gilbert...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Red Wing Iron Works
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Enter Marlon Brando
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Old Brewery In Preston
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hollywood Town Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Dotson
The Little Marais Inn
Jordan Brewery Complex
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Le Sueur Theater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Wasioja
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Duluth Homestead Project
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Remembering Quadna Resort
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Florence Town Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
Green Lake Mounds
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
District 48 School Near Delano
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Ottawa
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lost Highway 61
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
State Theater In Hutchinson
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Cobden
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Almelund Creamery
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome to Hanska
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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