In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The first pavilion was built on the shore of Lake Como in St. Paul in 1894. The wooden pavilion was...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wilder Public Baths
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Apartments
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Eight Days in May Protests
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Welcome to Hanska
Hanska was supposed to be a quick stop on my way from Mankato to Sleepy Eye. I planned to get a few...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Ottawa
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Dotson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Old Wadena
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Hanover Bridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Old School In Wolverton
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Little Marais Inn
Visiting Golden Gate
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Green Lake Mounds
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Florence Town Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Munger Terrace In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
District 48 School Near Delano
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Church of the Holy Cross
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Red Wing Iron Works
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Sandstone
Old Brewery In Preston
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bend in the River Regional Park
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lost Highway 61
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Almelund Creamery
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Finding The Past In Swatara
Moving Old Hibbing
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Cobden
Endion School In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The End of the Line in Currie
The Le Sueur Theater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
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
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...

