In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Robbinsdale Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Greater Minnesota
The Milford Monument
This monument was created in memory of the 53 women, men, and children that were killed in Milford...
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Enter Marlon Brando
The Almelund Creamery
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lost Highway 61
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Franconia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Little Falls Depot
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
District 48 School Near Delano
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Old Brewery In Preston
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Old School In Wolverton
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Florence Town Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
State Theater In Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Meyer School In St Augusta
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Moving Old Hibbing
The End of the Line in Currie
Visiting Golden Gate
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Duluth Homestead Project
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome to Hanska
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Ottawa
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hanover Bridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Cobden
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Wasioja
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Dotson
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
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...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn 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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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