In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Horatio Alden Smith made the bulk of his fortune as the co-owner of the Smith and Wyman Sash and...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Eight Days in May Protests
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
District #28 School in Ramsey
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Apartments
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Moderne New Ulm Library
In 1936, a sleek, Moderne-style public library was built in New Ulm, Minnesota. The land for the...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
For several years, Tenney held the distinction of being Minnesota’s smallest town. The 2010 census...
Visiting Golden Gate
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Cobden
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Old School In Wolverton
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Wasioja
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome to Hanska
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Ottawa
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome To Dotson
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Enter Marlon Brando
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Little Falls Depot
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Moving Old Hibbing
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Little Marais Inn
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Remembering Quadna Resort
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lost Highway 61
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Franconia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Old Brewery In Preston
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Almelund Creamery
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Green Lake Mounds
Hollywood Town Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Meyer School In St Augusta
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Endion School In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Florence Town Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hanover Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill 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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

