In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance Building In...
The Germania Life Insurance Building was built in 1889 at Fourth Street and Minnesota in downtown...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Apartments
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Saint Paul Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wilder Public Baths
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Landmark Center In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Eight Days in May Protests
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
The Milford Monument
Welcome to Hanska
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Visiting Golden Gate
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Old Brewery In Preston
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lost Highway 61
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Cobden
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Church of the Holy Cross
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
State Theater In Hutchinson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Remembering Quadna Resort
Endion Depot In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Le Sueur Theater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Duluth Homestead Project
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
District 48 School Near Delano
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion School In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hanover Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Green Lake Mounds
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Meyer School In St Augusta
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Little Marais Inn
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Ottawa
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Franconia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
District 6 School in New Sweden
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

