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 Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Townhomes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Apartments
The Saint Paul Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wilder Public Baths
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Eight Days in May Protests
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Greater Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Built in 1926, the New Ulm Company Service Station is the best remaining example in a series of...
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Old School In Wolverton
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Le Sueur Theater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Old Brewery In Preston
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Old Wadena
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Dotson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Little Marais Inn
Bend in the River Regional Park
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The End of the Line in Currie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Florence Town Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Endion School In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
District 6 School in New Sweden
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Ottawa
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hollywood Town Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Wasioja
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Little Falls Depot
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Cobden
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hanover Bridge
Historic Franconia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Milford Monument
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Almelund Creamery
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Church of the Holy Cross
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
State Theater In Hutchinson
Green Lake Mounds
District 48 School Near Delano
Finding The Past In Swatara
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
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...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

