In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Landmark Center In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Saint Paul Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Townhomes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Apartments
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Donald and Carrie Balfour house in Rochester, Minnesota, is a lovely example of how an Arts and...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Vermont-native Almond A. White came to Minnesota after the Civil War and settled in Brainerd for a...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion Depot In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Ottawa
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Red Wing Iron Works
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moving Old Hibbing
The Le Sueur Theater
The Little Marais Inn
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Wasioja
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Little Falls Depot
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lost Highway 61
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Brewery In Preston
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Oxford Mill Ruin
Meyer School In St Augusta
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Dotson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Old Wadena
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Moderne New Ulm Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Milford Monument
Hollywood Town Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Green Lake Mounds
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Visiting Golden Gate
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
District 48 School Near Delano
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Enter Marlon Brando
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Franconia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hanover Bridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Church of the Holy Cross
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Sandstone
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

