In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
Robbinsdale Library
The Robbinsdale Library opened its doors for the first time on January 4, 1926, thanks to the...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wilder Public Baths
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Most of us wouldn’t consider a 13,000 square foot mansion situated on a six-acre wooded lot with...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ness Congregation was originally organized as the Norwegian Evangelical St. Johannes...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Enter Marlon Brando
Green Lake Mounds
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Sandstone
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Wasioja
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
State Theater In Hutchinson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Jordan Brewery Complex
Meyer School In St Augusta
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Milford Monument
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bend in the River Regional Park
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
District 6 School in New Sweden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Almelund Creamery
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
District 48 School Near Delano
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Brewery In Preston
Hanover Bridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Red Wing Iron Works
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Moving Old Hibbing
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The End of the Line in Currie
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Cobden
Finding The Past In Swatara
Visiting Golden Gate
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion School In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Franconia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Florence Town Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Le Sueur Theater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Ruins of Sawyer School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood Town Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Little Marais Inn
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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