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 Eight Days in May Protests
For many at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus, May 9, 1972 started out like any other...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Apartments
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
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...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Old School In Wolverton
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Almelund Creamery
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Wasioja
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Ruins of Sawyer School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hollywood Town Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Enter Marlon Brando
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Franconia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Cobden
District 48 School Near Delano
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Visiting Golden Gate
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Little Marais Inn
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hanover Bridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Moving Old Hibbing
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Sandstone
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Florence Town Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Red Wing Iron Works
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Ottawa
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome to Hanska
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Milford Monument
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Green Lake Mounds
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Old Brewery In Preston
Meyer School In St Augusta
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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