In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Robbinsdale Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Apartments
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Greater Minnesota
Lost Highway 61
History buffs and curiosity seekers revel in finding a piece of the past. Stumbling across...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Two Island Project In the fall of 1953, the peaceful quiet of the north shore just south of...
Historic Wasioja
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Dotson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome to Hanska
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bend in the River Regional Park
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Endion School In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Visiting Golden Gate
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Old School In Wolverton
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Old Brewery In Preston
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Almelund Creamery
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Little Falls Depot
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Red Wing Iron Works
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Endion Depot In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Florence Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Jordan Brewery Complex
State Theater In Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Finding The Past In Swatara
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Meyer School In St Augusta
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hanover Bridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Ottawa
Wandering Around The Toimi School
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul