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 Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Eight Days in May Protests
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Robbinsdale Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
The End of the Line in Currie
In 1899, the Des Moines Valley Railway Company began work on a plan to extend their rail line in...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hanover Bridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Wasioja
District 48 School Near Delano
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Meyer School In St Augusta
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Endion School In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Ottawa
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Sandstone
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome to Hanska
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Enter Marlon Brando
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Little Falls Depot
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Green Lake Mounds
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Franconia
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Cobden
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
State Theater In Hutchinson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Old School In Wolverton
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moderne New Ulm Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Finding The Past In Swatara
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Oxford Mill Ruin
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Visiting Golden Gate
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lost Highway 61
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Almelund Creamery
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Old Wadena
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
District 6 School in New Sweden
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Red Wing Iron Works
The Le Sueur Theater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown