In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s Guardians of Health
The Washburn water tower sits on a hill in the heart of the Washburn Park (commonly known as...
The Swinford Townhomes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Robbinsdale Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Apartments
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Greater Minnesota
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Avenue, located on the east side of St. Cloud, became part of the Jefferson Highway system...
Endion School In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Oxford Mill Ruin
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Duluth Homestead Project
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Endion Depot In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Sandstone
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Florence Town Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
District 48 School Near Delano
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Almelund Creamery
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Enter Marlon Brando
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Milford Monument
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Brewery In Preston
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Finding The Past In Swatara
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
Green Lake Mounds
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Ottawa
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Dotson
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Franconia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Little Marais Inn
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Ruins of Sawyer School
Remembering Quadna Resort
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hanover Bridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Wasioja
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Red Wing Iron Works
State Theater In Hutchinson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Welcome to Hanska
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lost Highway 61
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Almond White and the Motley Castle
District 6 School in New Sweden
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
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Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
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...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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
Old Brewery In Preston