In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis was one of the rare mills in the city that had four finished...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Lost Highway 61
History buffs and curiosity seekers revel in finding a piece of the past. Stumbling across...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A library was first established in Two Harbors, Minnesota in 1897. A group of citizens banded...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Little Falls Depot
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Almelund Creamery
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Visiting Golden Gate
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Dotson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome to Hanska
Red Wing Iron Works
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hanover Bridge
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Sandstone
The Le Sueur Theater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Old Wadena
Florence Town Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Moving Old Hibbing
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Duluth Homestead Project
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Finding The Past In Swatara
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Old School In Wolverton
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hollywood Town Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Little Marais Inn
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Milford Monument
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
District 6 School in New Sweden
District 48 School Near Delano
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jordan Brewery Complex
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Enter Marlon Brando
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Ottawa
Remembering Quadna Resort
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Cobden
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...

