In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Robbinsdale Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Townhomes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ness Congregation was originally organized as the Norwegian Evangelical St. Johannes...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Church of the Holy Cross
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lost Highway 61
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Sandstone
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring Ottawa
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Little Marais Inn
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hollywood Town Hall
Endion School In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hanover Bridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Almelund Creamery
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Moving Old Hibbing
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Oxford Mill Ruin
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Red Wing Iron Works
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Old School In Wolverton
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Le Sueur Theater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Jordan Brewery Complex
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Old Brewery In Preston
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Wasioja
Visiting Golden Gate
Enter Marlon Brando
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Milford Monument
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Little Falls Depot
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
District 48 School Near Delano
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Old Wadena
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Green Lake Mounds
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac 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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
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
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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