In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
At the turn of the twentieth century, newspapers and magazines touted quack cures and healing cults...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Townhomes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Robbinsdale Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Apartments
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Jordan Brewery Complex
During the 1860s, Jordan had become an early industrial center in Scott County and brewing became...
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Green Lake Mounds
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Moving Old Hibbing
Lost Highway 61
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Florence Town Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Endion Depot In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Oxford Mill Ruin
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome To Cobden
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Old Brewery In Preston
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
District 6 School in New Sweden
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
District 48 School Near Delano
Red Wing Iron Works
Visiting Golden Gate
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hanover Bridge
The Little Marais Inn
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The End of the Line in Currie
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Dotson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome to Hanska
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Moderne New Ulm Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Milford Monument
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Wasioja
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Old School In Wolverton
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Almelund Creamery
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Remembering Quadna Resort
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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