In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
Robbinsdale Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Townhomes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Landmark Center In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wilder Public Baths
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Around the turn of the twentieth century, Nicollet County had eight rural crossroads hamlets. While...
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Florence Town Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Brewery In Preston
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Almelund Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Duluth Homestead Project
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Wasioja
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome to Hanska
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Old School In Wolverton
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lost Highway 61
The End of the Line in Currie
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Sandstone
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Little Falls Depot
Historic Franconia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Endion Depot In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Le Sueur Theater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 6 School in New Sweden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Moving Old Hibbing
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering Quadna Resort
Meyer School In St Augusta
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Finding The Past In Swatara
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Moderne New Ulm Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Endion School In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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