In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium was the first medical hospital in Anoka, Minnesota. Dr. James F. Kline opened the...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wilder Public Baths
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Townhomes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
District #28 School in Ramsey
Greater Minnesota
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The District Number 50 school in Essig, Minnesota, opened in 1912. Children attend this one-room...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Scottish immigrant James G Craigie settled in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, along with his wife...
Enter Marlon Brando
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
State Theater In Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Sandstone
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Florence Town Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hollywood Town Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Moderne New Ulm Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Wasioja
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Green Lake Mounds
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Incline Railway
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Franconia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Remembering Quadna Resort
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Old Brewery In Preston
Lost Highway 61
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Red Wing Iron Works
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
The End of the Line in Currie
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Little Marais Inn
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Milford Monument
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Finding The Past In Swatara
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bend in the River Regional Park
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Le Sueur Theater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The New Ulm Company Service Station
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Cobden
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
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...

