In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Apartments
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Townhomes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wilder Public Baths
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Old School In Wolverton
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Dotson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Milford Monument
Exploring Ottawa
The Little Marais Inn
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Enter Marlon Brando
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
District 48 School Near Delano
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Little Falls Depot
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Oxford Mill Ruin
Moving Old Hibbing
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Remembering Quadna Resort
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Finding The Past In Swatara
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hanover Bridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Moderne New Ulm Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Florence Town Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Cobden
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hollywood Town Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Endion School In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
The End of the Line in Currie
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Le Sueur Theater
State Theater In Hutchinson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome to Hanska
Lost Highway 61
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Sandstone
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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