In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Martha G. Ripley Hospital for Women was a pioneering institution in the history of Minnesota...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Townhomes
Robbinsdale Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Saint Paul Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Apartments
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
Old Brewery In Preston
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The End of the Line in Currie
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Old School In Wolverton
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Almelund Creamery
Green Lake Mounds
Little Falls Depot
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Moderne New Ulm Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Old Wadena
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Wasioja
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Jordan Brewery Complex
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hanover Bridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Milford Monument
Florence Town Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
Moving Old Hibbing
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Church of the Holy Cross
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Finding The Past In Swatara
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Franconia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Dotson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Duluth Homestead Project
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hollywood Town Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
District 6 School in New Sweden
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Endion School In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Red Wing Iron Works
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome to Hanska
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Sandstone
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Ottawa
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
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...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
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