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...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Saint Paul Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Apartments
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Wilder Public Baths
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Early settler and local banker Edson Smith built this French Second Empire style home for his...
Jordan Brewery Complex
During the 1860s, Jordan had become an early industrial center in Scott County and brewing became...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Visiting Golden Gate
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Almelund Creamery
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Dotson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Little Falls Depot
Green Lake Mounds
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hanover Bridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Little Marais Inn
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The End of the Line in Currie
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Oxford Mill Ruin
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Milford Monument
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Enter Marlon Brando
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome to Hanska
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Duluth Homestead Project
Florence Town Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Ottawa
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Finding The Past In Swatara
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Franconia
The Le Sueur Theater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bend in the River Regional Park
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Endion Depot In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Cobden
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
State Theater In Hutchinson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Old Wadena
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac 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 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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

