In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Located in Robbinsdale, the international-style Terrace Theatre opened on May 23, 1951. At the...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
District #28 School in Ramsey
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Visiting Golden Gate
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Green Lake Mounds
Florence Town Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome to Hanska
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Little Falls Depot
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Old Wadena
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Brewery In Preston
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Old School In Wolverton
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Dotson
Oxford Mill Ruin
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Wasioja
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hanover Bridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moving Old Hibbing
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Milford Monument
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The End of the Line in Currie
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Finding The Past In Swatara
Meyer School In St Augusta
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Red Wing Iron Works
Endion School In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Ottawa
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Le Sueur Theater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Franconia
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Remembering Quadna Resort
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
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...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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