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 Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
Hollywood Town Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Old School In Wolverton
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Cobden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Finding The Past In Swatara
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Dotson
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lost Highway 61
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Sandstone
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The New Ulm Company Service Station
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Old Brewery In Preston
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Le Sueur Theater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Endion School In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Florence Town Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome to Hanska
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Ottawa
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Duluth Homestead Project
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Wasioja
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Milford Monument
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
District 48 School Near Delano
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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