In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Apartments
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
One of the earliest victims of the big blow on Lake Superior in November of 1905 was the steamer...
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Visiting Golden Gate
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
State Theater In Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Church of the Holy Cross
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Little Marais Inn
Hollywood Town Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hanover Bridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Florence Town Hall
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Cobden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Endion School In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Dotson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Almelund Creamery
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Enter Marlon Brando
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Meyer School In St Augusta
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Duluth Homestead Project
Red Wing Iron Works
The Milford Monument
The Le Sueur Theater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
District 48 School Near Delano
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lost Highway 61
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Old School In Wolverton
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Franconia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Old Brewery In Preston
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Sandstone
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome to Hanska
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...

