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 Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Landmark Center In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George Neuwirth operated a popular bowling alley and bar throughout the 1930s and 1940s in New Ulm...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Moving Old Hibbing
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Le Sueur Theater
Florence Town Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Green Lake Mounds
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Sandstone
State Theater In Hutchinson
Remembering Quadna Resort
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Church of the Holy Cross
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Cobden
Little Falls Depot
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Visiting Golden Gate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Franconia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Enter Marlon Brando
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Wasioja
Ruins of Sawyer School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Dotson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The End of the Line in Currie
Lost Highway 61
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Oxford Mill Ruin
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Red Wing Iron Works
Old Brewery In Preston
Endion Depot In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hollywood Town Hall
The Milford Monument
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Endion School In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome to Hanska
The Old School In Wolverton
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
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...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
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...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...

