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 Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George H. Christian was a manager at the Washburn-Crosby Company in Minneapolis who worked out a...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Robbinsdale Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Apartments
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Greater Minnesota
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
You can’t drive through Zumbrota, Minnesota, without stopping at the covered bridge. It’s located...
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Wasioja
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Welcome to Hanska
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
District 48 School Near Delano
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Green Lake Mounds
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Sandstone
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Almelund Creamery
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Red Wing Iron Works
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lost Highway 61
Hollywood Town Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Old School In Wolverton
Moving Old Hibbing
The Church of the Holy Cross
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Finding The Past In Swatara
Jordan Brewery Complex
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Visiting Golden Gate
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Cobden
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Moderne New Ulm Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Milford Monument
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Le Sueur Theater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Endion Depot In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Endion School In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hanover Bridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
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...
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown