In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of Minneapolis
In an age before women had the right to vote, Elizabeth C. Quinlan was a natural entrepreneur who...
Wilder Public Baths
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Apartments
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The original village hall in Waverly was built in 1893. The two-story, brick and stone building sat...
Red Wing Iron Works
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Wasioja
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hollywood Town Hall
The Almelund Creamery
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Enter Marlon Brando
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Florence Town Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
District 6 School in New Sweden
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moving Old Hibbing
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Little Marais Inn
Lost Highway 61
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The End of the Line in Currie
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hanover Bridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Cobden
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Green Lake Mounds
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Little Falls Depot
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Finding The Past In Swatara
Endion School In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome to Hanska
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Franconia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Sandstone
The Old School In Wolverton
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
State Theater In Hutchinson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
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...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City 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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
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...

