In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Townhomes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Apartments
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ness Congregation was originally organized as the Norwegian Evangelical St. Johannes...
Visiting Golden Gate
A post office was first established in Golden Gate, Minnesota, in 1868. The little town sprang up...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Endion School In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Franconia
Green Lake Mounds
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Remembering Quadna Resort
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Little Marais Inn
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The End of the Line in Currie
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lost Highway 61
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Cobden
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Old School In Wolverton
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Almelund Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Old Wadena
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Ottawa
Moving Old Hibbing
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Oxford Mill Ruin
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Sandstone
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Milford Monument
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Meyer School In St Augusta
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hanover Bridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Wasioja
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Finding The Past In Swatara
Old Brewery In Preston
The Le Sueur Theater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
District 48 School Near Delano
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome to Hanska
Enter Marlon Brando
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Dotson
State Theater In Hutchinson
Endion Depot In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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