In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Landmark Center In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
District #28 School in Ramsey
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Apartments
The Eight Days in May Protests
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...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
At around 3:30 p.m. on February 5, 1924, the most devastating mining disaster in Minnesota history...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Green Lake Mounds
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bend in the River Regional Park
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Sandstone
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Meyer School In St Augusta
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Almelund Creamery
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hanover Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Milford Monument
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Little Marais Inn
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Red Wing Iron Works
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Wasioja
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Little Falls Depot
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Visiting Golden Gate
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lost Highway 61
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Endion Depot In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The End of the Line in Currie
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hollywood Town Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Franconia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Old School In Wolverton
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
State Theater In Hutchinson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Oxford Mill Ruin
Remembering Quadna Resort
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
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...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

