In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Robbinsdale Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Townhomes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Greater Minnesota
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Scottish immigrant James G Craigie settled in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, along with his wife...
Hollywood Town Hall
The Carver County District Number 76 School was built in 1906 and opened for classes in the fall of...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Sandstone
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome to Hanska
The End of the Line in Currie
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Duluth Homestead Project
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Moving Old Hibbing
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Dotson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Visiting Golden Gate
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Endion Depot In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Little Falls Depot
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Milford Monument
Moderne New Ulm Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Remembering Quadna Resort
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Franconia
Red Wing Iron Works
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Almelund Creamery
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Jordan Brewery Complex
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Wasioja
District 48 School Near Delano
District 6 School in New Sweden
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Enter Marlon Brando
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Cobden
The Old School In Wolverton
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Florence Town Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Old Brewery In Preston
The Little Marais Inn
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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