In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School opened in Minneapolis in 1932. The school was named after Mary...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wilder Public Baths
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Robbinsdale Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Park Terrace was an opulent building of Victorian townhouses located on a steep hill just off of...
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...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Ottawa
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Visiting Golden Gate
The Church of the Holy Cross
Florence Town Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Endion Depot In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome to Hanska
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Dotson
Endion School In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Green Lake Mounds
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
District 6 School in New Sweden
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Milford Monument
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The New Ulm Company Service Station
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
The Old School In Wolverton
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Little Marais Inn
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Cobden
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Little Falls Depot
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Meyer School In St Augusta
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Red Wing Iron Works
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
District 48 School Near Delano
Remembering Quadna Resort
Ruins of Sawyer School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City