In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Townhomes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Greater Minnesota
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
In 1957, trucks loaded with prefabricated homes rolled along Highway 61 toward a new building site...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
Old Brewery In Preston
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bend in the River Regional Park
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Little Falls Depot
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome to Hanska
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
District 6 School in New Sweden
Florence Town Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Franconia
Green Lake Mounds
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Le Sueur Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Little Marais Inn
Hollywood Town Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Endion School In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Moving Old Hibbing
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Dotson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Red Wing Iron Works
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Wasioja
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Sandstone
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Milford Monument
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Moderne New Ulm Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lost Highway 61
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Cobden
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Remembering Quadna Resort
Visiting Golden Gate
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Ottawa
The Duluth Homestead Project
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Almelund Creamery
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
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...
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
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
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...

