In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Built between 1902 and 1904, this beautiful building on its shady lot served southeast Minneapolis...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Apartments
The Eight Days in May Protests
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
District #28 School in Ramsey
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Townhomes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
When I arrived at the Quadna Resort, I felt like I’d stepped back in time. Although the lodge...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
This old stone chapel was built at the Sunrise Funeral Home and Cemetery in 1949. Located in...
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hollywood Town Hall
Lost Highway 61
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome to Hanska
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Wasioja
Moderne New Ulm Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Milford Monument
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Ruins of Sawyer School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Old Brewery In Preston
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Franconia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Cobden
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Almelund Creamery
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Little Falls Depot
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Enter Marlon Brando
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Ottawa
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
District 48 School Near Delano
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Red Wing Iron Works
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Visiting Golden Gate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Jordan Brewery Complex
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Old School In Wolverton
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hanover Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome To Old Wadena
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Moving Old Hibbing
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Florence Town Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Sandstone
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Little Marais Inn
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Oxford Mill Ruin
District 6 School in New Sweden
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Endion Depot In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
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
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
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...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

