In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Today, The Blaisdell is a wedding and event venue with cozy places to gather with your nearest and...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Apartments
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
District #28 School in Ramsey
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Townhomes
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...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
District 48 School Near Delano
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Old Brewery In Preston
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Old School In Wolverton
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Ottawa
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Finding The Past In Swatara
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Moving Old Hibbing
Daniel Piper House in Medford
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Duluth Homestead Project
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Green Lake Mounds
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Wasioja
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hanover Bridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Remembering Quadna Resort
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lost Highway 61
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Endion School In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hollywood Town Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Visiting Golden Gate
The Little Marais Inn
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome to Hanska
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
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
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...

