In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
District #28 School in Ramsey
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Townhomes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Robbinsdale Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
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...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome to Hanska
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Ottawa
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering Quadna Resort
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Endion School In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Cobden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Moving Old Hibbing
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Little Marais Inn
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Sandstone
Lost Highway 61
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
District 48 School Near Delano
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Visiting Golden Gate
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hanover Bridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood Town Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Florence Town Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Green Lake Mounds
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bend in the River Regional Park
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 6 School in New Sweden
Little Falls Depot
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
The Almelund Creamery
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Dotson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Enter Marlon Brando
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
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...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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