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 Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles G. Jackson immigrated to the U.S. and purchased the Anoka House, the oldest hotel in Anoka...
The Swinford Townhomes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wilder Public Baths
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Landmark Center In St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Robbinsdale Library
Greater Minnesota
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Built in 1926, the New Ulm Company Service Station is the best remaining example in a series of...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Ok, stick with me here. Can you remember how your elementary school smelled? I can. Vividly. A hint...
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Little Marais Inn
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Ottawa
Green Lake Mounds
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Milford Monument
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Oxford Mill Ruin
Old Brewery In Preston
Hanover Bridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Sandstone
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
District 48 School Near Delano
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Almelund Creamery
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Little Falls Depot
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Le Sueur Theater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
State Theater In Hutchinson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Old School In Wolverton
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion School In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood Town Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Red Wing Iron Works
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
Remembering Quadna Resort
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bend in the River Regional Park
Moving Old Hibbing
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Dotson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Florence Town Hall
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Wasioja
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lost Highway 61
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
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...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...

