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 Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Lowry Hotel opened in 1927 and was 12 floors of pure glamour. An addition was made in 1930 to...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Townhomes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Greater Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge (Svenska Mission Kyrka i Sodre Maple Ridge)...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Sandstone
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Ottawa
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lost Highway 61
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Moderne New Ulm Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taylor House In Le Sueur
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Le Sueur Theater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Cobden
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Red Wing Iron Works
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Little Marais Inn
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Franconia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Dotson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Jordan Brewery Complex
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood Town Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Endion School In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Wasioja
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Florence Town Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome to Hanska
The Milford Monument
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Finding The Past In Swatara
Oxford Mill Ruin
Visiting Golden Gate
District 48 School Near Delano
Remembering Quadna Resort
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
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...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
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...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...

