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 Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
On March 22, 1836, Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark married Lieutenant Horatio Phillips Van Cleve a few...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Robbinsdale Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Landmark Center In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Old Brewery In Preston
The Preston Brewery is located at the foot of a bluff on the banks of the Root River. Brewing...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge (Svenska Mission Kyrka i Sodre Maple Ridge)...
Historic Franconia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Ottawa
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Endion School In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Dotson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Visiting Golden Gate
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hanover Bridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Little Marais Inn
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Remembering Quadna Resort
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Green Lake Mounds
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
District 48 School Near Delano
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Milford Monument
District 6 School in New Sweden
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bend in the River Regional Park
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Wasioja
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Cobden
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Old School In Wolverton
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Jordan Brewery Complex
Little Falls Depot
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Moving Old Hibbing
State Theater In Hutchinson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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
