In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Apartments
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Townhomes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Eight Days in May Protests
Landmark Center In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
District #28 School in Ramsey
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Wilder Public Baths
Greater Minnesota
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
For several years, Tenney held the distinction of being Minnesota’s smallest town. The 2010 census...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Moderne New Ulm Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
The Le Sueur Theater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Endion Depot In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lundring Service Station in Canby
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Dotson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Visiting Golden Gate
The Little Marais Inn
The Old School In Wolverton
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Franconia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Red Wing Iron Works
Finding The Past In Swatara
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Ruins of Sawyer School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
District 48 School Near Delano
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Green Lake Mounds
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Church of the Holy Cross
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Endion School In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Old Brewery In Preston
Hanover Bridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The End of the Line in Currie
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring Ottawa
Moving Old Hibbing
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Sandstone
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hollywood Town Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bend in the River Regional Park
State Theater In Hutchinson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
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 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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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