In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of Minneapolis
In an age before women had the right to vote, Elizabeth C. Quinlan was a natural entrepreneur who...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wilder Public Baths
Landmark Center In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Endion Depot in Duluth, Minnesota, was moved to Canal Park in 1986 to make way for the...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Enter Marlon Brando
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The End of the Line in Currie
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome to Hanska
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Wasioja
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Duluth Homestead Project
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Old School In Wolverton
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Milford Monument
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
District 48 School Near Delano
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Cobden
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Little Marais Inn
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Old Wadena
Endion School In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Franconia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Little Falls Depot
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Sandstone
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Dotson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Florence Town Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Jordan Brewery Complex
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Almelund Creamery
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Incline Railway
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hanover Bridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Finding The Past In Swatara
State Theater In Hutchinson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Ottawa
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

