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 Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
At the turn of the twentieth century, newspapers and magazines touted quack cures and healing cults...
Wilder Public Baths
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Robbinsdale Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Landmark Center In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lincoln Park is 37 acres of space along Miller Creek in Duluth’s west end. Today, the park includes...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The West Bridge in Madelia, Minnesota, was built in 1908. It is the earliest remaining example of a...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Brewery In Preston
Endion Depot In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Dotson
Remembering Quadna Resort
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Cobden
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hanover Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hollywood Town Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Wandering Around The Toimi School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Endion School In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lost Highway 61
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome to Hanska
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Visiting Golden Gate
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Ruins of Sawyer School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
The Milford Monument
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Duluth Homestead Project
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Old School In Wolverton
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Jordan Brewery Complex
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Old Wadena
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Little Marais Inn
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Oxford Mill Ruin
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Franconia
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Florence Town Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Red Wing Iron Works
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

