In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wilder Public Baths
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Townhomes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Apartments
Robbinsdale Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Landmark Center In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
The Le Sueur Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Milford Monument
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Little Marais Inn
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Red Wing Iron Works
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Remembering Quadna Resort
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Moving Old Hibbing
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Old School In Wolverton
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Ruins of Sawyer School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Florence Town Hall
Hollywood Town Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Dotson
The End of the Line in Currie
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Little Falls Depot
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lost Highway 61
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Ottawa
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Jordan Brewery Complex
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Duluth Homestead Project
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
District 48 School Near Delano
Hanover Bridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Sandstone
State Theater In Hutchinson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Endion School In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
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...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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