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 Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wilder Public Baths
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Landmark Center In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bend in the River Regional Park is located on the former property of the Graves family. The...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lost Highway 61
Red Wing Iron Works
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The End of the Line in Currie
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Moving Old Hibbing
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Cobden
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Brewery In Preston
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Enter Marlon Brando
Green Lake Mounds
Finding The Past In Swatara
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Old School In Wolverton
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Ottawa
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering Quadna Resort
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Wasioja
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Milford Monument
District 6 School in New Sweden
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hollywood Town Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome to Hanska
The Almelund Creamery
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Endion Depot In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion School In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Le Sueur Theater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Florence Town Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Sandstone
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
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...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

