In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wilder Public Baths
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
District #28 School in Ramsey
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Greater Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Daniel Piper came to Minnesota from New Hampshire with his wife and daughter in early 1877...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Lincoln Branch of the Duluth Public Library opened in 1917 thanks to $30,000 from Andrew...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hanover Bridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Endion School In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Milford Monument
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Moving Old Hibbing
Moderne New Ulm Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Cobden
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Le Sueur Theater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood Town Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Wasioja
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Church of the Holy Cross
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lost Highway 61
The Almelund Creamery
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
District 6 School in New Sweden
Ruins of Sawyer School
District 48 School Near Delano
Meyer School In St Augusta
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Little Falls Depot
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Ottawa
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Enter Marlon Brando
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Old Wadena
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Florence Town Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Green Lake Mounds
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...

