In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Horatio Alden Smith made the bulk of his fortune as the co-owner of the Smith and Wyman Sash and...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Apartments
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Saint Paul Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Robbinsdale Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wilder Public Baths
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Greater Minnesota
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Little Falls Depot
The Le Sueur Theater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Duluth Homestead Project
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Cobden
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Moderne New Ulm Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Endion School In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bend in the River Regional Park
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Dotson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
State Theater In Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Old Wadena
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Little Marais Inn
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Old School In Wolverton
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Green Lake Mounds
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Franconia
The Almelund Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lost Highway 61
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Sandstone
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hanover Bridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Red Wing Iron Works
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The New Ulm Company Service Station
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Milford Monument
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Enter Marlon Brando
Visiting Golden Gate
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Finding The Past In Swatara
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Ruins of Sawyer School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Wasioja
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome to Hanska
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Ottawa
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
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
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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