In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The first branch library in the Minneapolis Public Library system was built in 1893-1894 and is one...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Robbinsdale Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Townhomes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Several buildings were constructed on 30 acres of lakefront property in Two Harbors in the 1920s to...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
St Rose of Lima church was built in 1878. The church and its cemetery sit on over an acre of land...
Hanover Bridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Wasioja
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Florence Town Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Milford Monument
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
State Theater In Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Wandering Around The Toimi School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Oxford Mill Ruin
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Visiting Golden Gate
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Ottawa
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Green Lake Mounds
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Enter Marlon Brando
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Duluth Homestead Project
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Le Sueur Theater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Old Brewery In Preston
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Old Wadena
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lost Highway 61
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Church of the Holy Cross
District 6 School in New Sweden
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Sandstone
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Little Falls Depot
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome to Hanska
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Moving Old Hibbing
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

