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 Weatherball in Minneapolis
♫ When the Weatherball is glowing red, warmer weather’s just ahead. When the Weatherball is...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Robbinsdale Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Greater Minnesota
The Milford Monument
This monument was created in memory of the 53 women, men, and children that were killed in Milford...
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...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Almelund Creamery
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Enter Marlon Brando
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Sandstone
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Endion School In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
State Theater In Hutchinson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Cobden
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Le Sueur Theater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Visiting Golden Gate
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Florence Town Hall
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hollywood Town Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hanover Bridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Wasioja
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Franconia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Almond White and the Motley Castle
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Little Marais Inn
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Finding The Past In Swatara
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Jordan Brewery Complex
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring Ottawa
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Old School In Wolverton
Bend in the River Regional Park
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Moving Old Hibbing
Little Falls Depot
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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