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 the Extraordinary in University Grove
University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Robbinsdale Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wilder Public Baths
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Apartments
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Dotson
Jordan Brewery Complex
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Florence Town Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Little Falls Depot
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hollywood Town Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Franconia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Moving Old Hibbing
Meyer School In St Augusta
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Endion School In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Church of the Holy Cross
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Cobden
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Finding The Past In Swatara
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Milford Monument
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Remembering Quadna Resort
Green Lake Mounds
District 48 School Near Delano
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hanover Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lost Highway 61
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Enter Marlon Brando
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bend in the River Regional Park
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The End of the Line in Currie
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Old Wadena
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Wasioja
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Sandstone
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Oxford Mill Ruin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township 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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

