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 Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George H. Christian was a manager at the Washburn-Crosby Company in Minneapolis who worked out a...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Apartments
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Robbinsdale Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
District #28 School in Ramsey
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swatara, Minnesota, started out as a logging town when several logging companies moved into the...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Originally built as the second home of the First Swedish Baptist Church in 1910, the Temple Baptist...
Hanover Bridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Little Falls Depot
The Old School In Wolverton
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Moderne New Ulm Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
State Theater In Hutchinson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
The Little Marais Inn
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Old Wadena
Moving Old Hibbing
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lost Highway 61
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Milford Monument
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Remembering Quadna Resort
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Sandstone
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bend in the River Regional Park
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Franconia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome to Hanska
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Almelund Creamery
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood Town Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Wasioja
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Cobden
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Article Archive
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
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Old Brewery In Preston