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...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Robbinsdale Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
When I arrived at the Quadna Resort, I felt like I’d stepped back in time. Although the lodge...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
In 1957, trucks loaded with prefabricated homes rolled along Highway 61 toward a new building site...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Ruins of Sawyer School
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Visiting Golden Gate
Old Brewery In Preston
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Cobden
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hanover Bridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bend in the River Regional Park
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Moderne New Ulm Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Ottawa
Endion School In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Milford Monument
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Sandstone
Meyer School In St Augusta
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The End of the Line in Currie
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lost Highway 61
The Little Marais Inn
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Franconia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Jordan Brewery Complex
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Red Wing Iron Works
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Green Lake Mounds
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Old School In Wolverton
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Oxford Mill Ruin
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Wasioja
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
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...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

