In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
This beauty was built in 1914 and is St Paul’s largest Prairie Style house at just under 3,000...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wilder Public Baths
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Eight Days in May Protests
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Vermont-native Almond A. White came to Minnesota after the Civil War and settled in Brainerd for a...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Little Marais Inn
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Dotson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Le Sueur Theater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Duluth Homestead Project
Enter Marlon Brando
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Old School In Wolverton
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Moving Old Hibbing
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Milford Monument
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Ruins of Sawyer School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Ottawa
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Florence Town Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Visiting Golden Gate
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Little Falls Depot
Moderne New Ulm Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hollywood Town Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Oxford Mill Ruin
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Cobden
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome to Hanska
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Franconia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...

