In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School opened in Minneapolis in 1932. The school was named after Mary...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Robbinsdale Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Townhomes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Greater Minnesota
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Travelers come upon the Stewart Creek stone-arch bridge in a bend of an unpaved section of Skyline...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State Hospital
In 1873, the State of Minnesota was looking for a way to house an increasingly problematic group of...
Red Wing Iron Works
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Duluth Homestead Project
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Wasioja
Jordan Brewery Complex
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Ruins of Sawyer School
Old Brewery In Preston
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Endion School In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Cobden
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Franconia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lost Highway 61
Enter Marlon Brando
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Green Lake Mounds
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Visiting Golden Gate
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Dotson
Florence Town Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hanover Bridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Le Sueur Theater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Little Falls Depot
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
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...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
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...

