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...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Eight Days in May Protests
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Greater Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Cobden
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Little Falls Depot
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lincoln Park In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Dotson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Remembering Quadna Resort
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood Town Hall
Florence Town Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lost Highway 61
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Old Brewery In Preston
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Meyer School In St Augusta
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Moving Old Hibbing
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Le Sueur Theater
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Oxford Mill Ruin
The End of the Line in Currie
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Sandstone
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Endion School In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Franconia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Wasioja
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
District 48 School Near Delano
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Little Marais Inn
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Almelund Creamery
Ruins of Sawyer School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome to Hanska
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion Depot In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Milford Monument
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hanover Bridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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