In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
♫ When the Weatherball is glowing red, warmer weather’s just ahead. When the Weatherball is...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Apartments
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
The Eight Days in May Protests
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Shortly after midnight on November 28, 1905, the Crescent City dropped anchor in 90-feet of water...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
William J Mayo was the older of the two Mayo brothers who, along with five partners, founded the...
Red Wing Iron Works
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Milford Monument
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Le Sueur Theater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Enter Marlon Brando
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Wandering Around The Toimi School
State Theater In Hutchinson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Almelund Creamery
Taylor House In Le Sueur
District 6 School in New Sweden
Remembering Quadna Resort
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Old Brewery In Preston
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Old School In Wolverton
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Cobden
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Florence Town Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Ottawa
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lost Highway 61
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Franconia
The Church of the Holy Cross
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Moderne New Ulm Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Meyer School In St Augusta
District 48 School Near Delano
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hanover Bridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Little Marais Inn
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Sandstone
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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