In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Apartments
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Landmark Center In St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Robbinsdale Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Minnesota Home School for Girls was established by the state legislature in 1907 as a...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Ottawa
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Franconia
Welcome to Hanska
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Finding The Past In Swatara
Florence Town Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hollywood Town Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Cobden
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Green Lake Mounds
State Theater In Hutchinson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Old Brewery In Preston
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Endion School In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hanover Bridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Little Falls Depot
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Milford Monument
Enter Marlon Brando
The Old School In Wolverton
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Sandstone
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Old Wadena
Meyer School In St Augusta
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Visiting Golden Gate
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Historic Wasioja
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Duluth Homestead Project
Moving Old Hibbing
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Red Wing Iron Works
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Church of the Holy Cross
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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