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 End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
In 1899, the Twin City Rapid Transit Company extended its reach of their streetcars to the...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Townhomes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wilder Public Baths
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Apartments
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Planning for a new road for stagecoach travel westward from the Mississippi began in the winter of...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Ottawa
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Enter Marlon Brando
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Old School In Wolverton
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Church of the Holy Cross
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Red Wing Iron Works
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Moderne New Ulm Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Endion School In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Franconia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
The End of the Line in Currie
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Cobden
Little Falls Depot
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Dotson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Old Wadena
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Sandstone
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome to Hanska
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
District 6 School in New Sweden
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Milford Monument
Green Lake Mounds
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Wasioja
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Oxford Mill Ruin
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Florence Town Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Le Sueur Theater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
Endion Depot In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Little Marais Inn
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
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...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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