In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little was a partner in a Minneapolis-based real estate firm. He didn’t leave behind much...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Women’s City Club In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Townhomes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State Hospital
In 1873, the State of Minnesota was looking for a way to house an increasingly problematic group of...
Enter Marlon Brando
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Ottawa
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Little Falls Depot
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 48 School Near Delano
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The End of the Line in Currie
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Florence Town Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Old School In Wolverton
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Dotson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hollywood Town Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Moderne New Ulm Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bend in the River Regional Park
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Franconia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lost Highway 61
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Ruins of Sawyer School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome to Hanska
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Milford Monument
Visiting Golden Gate
Old Brewery In Preston
Green Lake Mounds
Hanover Bridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Wasioja
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Sandstone
The Little Marais Inn
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Endion Depot In Duluth
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...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

