In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Apartments
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Eight Days in May Protests
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Townhomes
Wilder Public Baths
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Milford Monument
This monument was created in memory of the 53 women, men, and children that were killed in Milford...
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Church of the Holy Cross in Dundas is a Gothic-style church built in 1868. John S. Archibald of...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Almelund Creamery
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
District 6 School in New Sweden
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Wasioja
The End of the Line in Currie
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Red Wing Iron Works
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Sandstone
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Brewery In Preston
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Little Falls Depot
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Franconia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Green Lake Mounds
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Florence Town Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Old School In Wolverton
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Endion School In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Taylor House In Le Sueur
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hanover Bridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Moving Old Hibbing
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Duluth Homestead Project
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Ottawa
The Little Marais Inn
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Visiting Golden Gate
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...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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