In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Townhomes
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wilder Public Baths
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Greater Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lincoln Park is 37 acres of space along Miller Creek in Duluth’s west end. Today, the park includes...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Red Wing Iron Works
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Florence Town Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Little Falls Depot
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome to Hanska
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Moving Old Hibbing
District 6 School in New Sweden
Visiting Golden Gate
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Wasioja
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
State Theater In Hutchinson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Endion Depot In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lost Highway 61
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Little Marais Inn
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 48 School Near Delano
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Milford Monument
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Dotson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jordan Brewery Complex
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Ruins of Sawyer School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The End of the Line in Currie
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Le Sueur Theater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Enter Marlon Brando
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Old School In Wolverton
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Cobden
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Almelund Creamery
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hanover Bridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Endion School In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Sandstone
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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