In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Apartments
The Saint Paul Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lincoln Park is 37 acres of space along Miller Creek in Duluth’s west end. Today, the park includes...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Duluth Homestead Project
Endion School In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Dotson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Ruins of Sawyer School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Florence Town Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hollywood Town Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hanover Bridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Little Marais Inn
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome to Hanska
The End of the Line in Currie
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Old School In Wolverton
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
State Theater In Hutchinson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Green Lake Mounds
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Franconia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Sandstone
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Red Wing Iron Works
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Church of the Holy Cross
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Old Brewery In Preston
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lost Highway 61
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
The Milford Monument
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Almelund Creamery
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Oxford Mill Ruin
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Ottawa
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
District 48 School Near Delano
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Enter Marlon Brando
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Le Sueur Theater
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...

