In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Robbinsdale Library
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Townhomes
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Apartments
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to one of the most awe-inspiring buildings in Minnesota. It’s big. It’s...
Lost Highway 61
History buffs and curiosity seekers revel in finding a piece of the past. Stumbling across...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The End of the Line in Currie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Florence Town Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Wasioja
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Little Marais Inn
Green Lake Mounds
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Moderne New Ulm Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Cobden
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Red Wing Iron Works
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Le Sueur Theater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Visiting Golden Gate
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Endion Depot In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 48 School Near Delano
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hanover Bridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Sandstone
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Almelund Creamery
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Endion School In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Milford Monument
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Dotson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Little Falls Depot
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
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...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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