In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The first pavilion was built on the shore of Lake Como in St. Paul in 1894. The wooden pavilion was...
The Swinford Apartments
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Around the turn of the twentieth century, Nicollet County had eight rural crossroads hamlets. While...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ness Congregation was originally organized as the Norwegian Evangelical St. Johannes...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Endion School In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lost Highway 61
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Almelund Creamery
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Franconia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
The End of the Line in Currie
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Old School In Wolverton
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Wasioja
Jordan Brewery Complex
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
District 6 School in New Sweden
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Moderne New Ulm Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Florence Town Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Little Marais Inn
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Cobden
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Little Falls Depot
Remembering Quadna Resort
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
District 48 School Near Delano
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Milford Monument
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Ruins of Sawyer School
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Green Lake Mounds
Hanover Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Le Sueur Theater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Sandstone
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Moving Old Hibbing
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome to Hanska
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
State Theater In Hutchinson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Ottawa
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
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