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...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Robbinsdale Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Greater Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bend in the River Regional Park
Little Falls Depot
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Franconia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Enter Marlon Brando
Moving Old Hibbing
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hollywood Town Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
District 48 School Near Delano
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Oxford Mill Ruin
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Green Lake Mounds
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Old Brewery In Preston
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lost Highway 61
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
The Duluth Homestead Project
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Sandstone
Moderne New Ulm Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Ottawa
Jordan Brewery Complex
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Almelund Creamery
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Wasioja
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Le Sueur Theater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Red Wing Iron Works
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion Depot In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Milford Monument
Visiting Golden Gate
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Dotson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Endion School In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...

