In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
Robbinsdale Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Apartments
The Saint Paul Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Old Brewery In Preston
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hollywood Town Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The End of the Line in Currie
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Wasioja
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hanover Bridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Jordan Brewery Complex
Enter Marlon Brando
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Dotson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Remembering Quadna Resort
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Red Wing Iron Works
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Le Sueur Theater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Sandstone
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome to Hanska
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Cobden
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Moving Old Hibbing
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Franconia
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Endion Depot In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Milford Monument
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Old School In Wolverton
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bend in the River Regional Park
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
District 48 School Near Delano
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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