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 Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Robbinsdale Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Apartments
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Greater Minnesota
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George Neuwirth operated a popular bowling alley and bar throughout the 1930s and 1940s in New Ulm...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Memories are made at the lake. Whether you’re lucky enough to go every weekend in the summer...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Franconia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Meyer School In St Augusta
District 48 School Near Delano
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Little Falls Depot
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Ruins of Sawyer School
Moderne New Ulm Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Ottawa
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Enter Marlon Brando
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Remembering Quadna Resort
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lost Highway 61
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Old School In Wolverton
Jordan Brewery Complex
Moving Old Hibbing
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Florence Town Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hollywood Town Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome to Hanska
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Sandstone
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hanover Bridge
Green Lake Mounds
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The End of the Line in Currie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Milford Monument
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Visiting Golden Gate
Oxford Mill Ruin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

