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 Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The historic Turnblad mansion was built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan Turnblad, his wife...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Wilder Public Baths
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Apartments
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Greater Minnesota
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Early settler and local banker Edson Smith built this French Second Empire style home for his...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hanover Bridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Ottawa
Bend in the River Regional Park
Endion School In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Visiting Golden Gate
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Sandstone
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome to Hanska
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Jordan Brewery Complex
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Old School In Wolverton
The Milford Monument
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lost Highway 61
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Enter Marlon Brando
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Cobden
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Meyer School In St Augusta
Wandering Around The Toimi School
District 6 School in New Sweden
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hollywood Town Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Little Marais Inn
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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