In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Townhomes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Greater Minnesota
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Donald and Carrie Balfour house in Rochester, Minnesota, is a lovely example of how an Arts and...
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hanover Bridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Old Wadena
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Milford Monument
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Green Lake Mounds
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bend in the River Regional Park
Visiting Golden Gate
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Florence Town Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Franconia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The End of the Line in Currie
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Little Falls Depot
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Ottawa
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lost Highway 61
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Old Brewery In Preston
Ruins of Sawyer School
Finding The Past In Swatara
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hollywood Town Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Little Marais Inn
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
State Theater In Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
District 48 School Near Delano
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome to Hanska
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Remembering Quadna Resort
Moderne New Ulm Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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