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...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Apartments
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
District #28 School in Ramsey
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pennsylvania-native Joseph Renshaw Brown arrived in Minnesota at the age of 14 with the Army. He...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Park Terrace was an opulent building of Victorian townhouses located on a steep hill just off of...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Old Brewery In Preston
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Dotson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Meyer School In St Augusta
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hanover Bridge
Lost Highway 61
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Moving Old Hibbing
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring Ottawa
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Old School In Wolverton
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Florence Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Ruins of Sawyer School
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome to Hanska
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Franconia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
District 48 School Near Delano
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The End of the Line in Currie
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Red Wing Iron Works
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Le Sueur Theater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Little Falls Depot
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Milford Monument
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Wasioja
Endion School In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
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Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
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Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
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Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
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Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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