In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
District #28 School in Ramsey
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Landmark Center In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Townhomes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
By the end of the 19th century, dairy was quickly out-pacing wheat as the top agricultural...
The Little Marais Inn
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Sandstone
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Old Wadena
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Enter Marlon Brando
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Almelund Creamery
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The End of the Line in Currie
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
District 6 School in New Sweden
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Meyer School In St Augusta
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Florence Town Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Cobden
Visiting Golden Gate
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Daniel Piper House in Medford
District 48 School Near Delano
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Red Wing Iron Works
The Milford Monument
Old Brewery In Preston
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Moderne New Ulm Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Ruins of Sawyer School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Endion School In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lost Highway 61
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
State Theater In Hutchinson
Endion Depot In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Little Falls Depot
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The New Ulm Company Service Station
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood Town Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
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...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

