In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Apartments
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Eight Days in May Protests
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wilder Public Baths
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Townhomes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Endion Depot in Duluth, Minnesota, was moved to Canal Park in 1986 to make way for the...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Le Sueur Theater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Old School In Wolverton
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The End of the Line in Currie
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Green Lake Mounds
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome to Hanska
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Cobden
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Old Wadena
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Ruins of Sawyer School
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Wasioja
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Endion School In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Old Brewery In Preston
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Moderne New Ulm Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Florence Town Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Moving Old Hibbing
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Franconia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Little Falls Depot
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Almelund Creamery
Remembering Quadna Resort
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Sandstone
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...

