In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wilder Public Baths
It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Apartments
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Eight Days in May Protests
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Townhomes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
District #28 School in Ramsey
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Geldner Sawmill stands on a narrow strip of land that separates Lake Jefferson and German Lake...
Endion School In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Almelund Creamery
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Oxford Mill Ruin
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Exploring Sandstone
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The End of the Line in Currie
The Church of the Holy Cross
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Hanover Bridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 48 School Near Delano
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Franconia
The Le Sueur Theater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Cobden
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hollywood Town Hall
The Little Marais Inn
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Moving Old Hibbing
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome to Hanska
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Little Falls Depot
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Enter Marlon Brando
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Wasioja
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Florence Town Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
District 6 School in New Sweden
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Milford Monument
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Old Brewery In Preston
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lost Highway 61
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Jordan Brewery Complex
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

