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 Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Townhomes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
The End of the Line in Currie
In 1899, the Des Moines Valley Railway Company began work on a plan to extend their rail line in...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Sandstone
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
District 6 School in New Sweden
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lost Highway 61
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Milford Monument
Little Falls Depot
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
District 48 School Near Delano
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Red Wing Iron Works
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Florence Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Almelund Creamery
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Green Lake Mounds
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Cobden
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Visiting Golden Gate
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Old School In Wolverton
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Ottawa
Remembering Quadna Resort
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Old Brewery In Preston
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Dotson
Endion Depot In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Le Sueur Theater
The Church of the Holy Cross
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Little Marais Inn
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Old Wadena
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Enter Marlon Brando
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Meyer School In St Augusta
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

