In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The first pavilion was built on the shore of Lake Como in St. Paul in 1894. The wooden pavilion was...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wilder Public Baths
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hanover Bridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
District 48 School Near Delano
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Almelund Creamery
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome to Hanska
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Franconia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
District 6 School in New Sweden
Green Lake Mounds
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Sandstone
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Old Wadena
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Ruins of Sawyer School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Red Wing Iron Works
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Little Falls Depot
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Church of the Holy Cross
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Ottawa
Finding The Past In Swatara
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Endion Depot In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Bend in the River Regional Park
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Brewery In Preston
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Le Sueur Theater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Oxford Mill Ruin
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Jordan Brewery Complex
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Enter Marlon Brando
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

