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 Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was founded in January 1897. The church...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Robbinsdale Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Townhomes
Greater Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
When I arrived at the Quadna Resort, I felt like I’d stepped back in time. Although the lodge...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Bally Blacksmith Shop opened in 1911 when Sam Bally left his job at a sawmill to open his own...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Old Brewery In Preston
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Little Falls Depot
Green Lake Mounds
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The End of the Line in Currie
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Jordan Brewery Complex
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Franconia
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hanover Bridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Ruins of Sawyer School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Church of the Holy Cross
Finding The Past In Swatara
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lost Highway 61
The Almelund Creamery
Enter Marlon Brando
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Moving Old Hibbing
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Endion School In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion Depot In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Wasioja
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Florence Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

