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 Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Lowry Hotel opened in 1927 and was 12 floors of pure glamour. An addition was made in 1930 to...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wilder Public Baths
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Robbinsdale Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
After one hundred and twenty years, the mystery of what happened to Clara Ober between the evening...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
District 6 School in New Sweden
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Almelund Creamery
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Taylor House In Le Sueur
State Theater In Hutchinson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Old Wadena
Remembering Quadna Resort
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Le Sueur Theater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Milford Monument
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hanover Bridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Franconia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 48 School Near Delano
Enter Marlon Brando
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lost Highway 61
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Little Marais Inn
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Old Brewery In Preston
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Endion Depot In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Little Falls Depot
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hollywood Town Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome to Hanska
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Moving Old Hibbing
The Old School In Wolverton
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Red Wing Iron Works
Florence Town Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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