In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg and his wife Dora were the owners of a jewelry store in downtown Minneapolis in the...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Townhomes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Robbinsdale Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Eight Days in May Protests
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Apartments
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Hanover Bridge
Hanover Bridge was constructed by the Morse Bridge Company of Youngstown, Ohio in 1885. The single...
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Milford Monument
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hollywood Town Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Church of the Holy Cross
Finding The Past In Swatara
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Dotson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Sandstone
Moving Old Hibbing
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Visiting Golden Gate
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Almond White and the Motley Castle
State Theater In Hutchinson
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Franconia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Endion School In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
District 6 School in New Sweden
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bend in the River Regional Park
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome to Hanska
The Little Marais Inn
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Cobden
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Green Lake Mounds
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Wasioja
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Florence Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Ottawa
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Endion Depot In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Little Falls Depot
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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