In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Apartments
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Avenue, located on the east side of St. Cloud, became part of the Jefferson Highway system...
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Moderne New Ulm Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Ottawa
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Little Marais Inn
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Wasioja
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Green Lake Mounds
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Meyer School In St Augusta
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
State Theater In Hutchinson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Little Falls Depot
Enter Marlon Brando
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Franconia
The Almelund Creamery
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lost Highway 61
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Le Sueur Theater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Church of the Holy Cross
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Endion School In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Dotson
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Cobden
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Endion Depot In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Old Brewery In Preston
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Sandstone
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hollywood Town Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Old School In Wolverton
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome to Hanska
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The End of the Line in Currie
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Moving Old Hibbing
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...

