In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Edwin H Hewitt was one of Minnesota’s most widely-known architects of the 20th century. Born in Red...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Apartments
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lincoln Park is 37 acres of space along Miller Creek in Duluth’s west end. Today, the park includes...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Church of the Holy Cross
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Ottawa
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Visiting Golden Gate
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hollywood Town Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Almelund Creamery
Little Falls Depot
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lost Highway 61
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Milford Monument
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Cobden
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Enter Marlon Brando
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Duluth Homestead Project
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Endion School In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Old School In Wolverton
Green Lake Mounds
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Wasioja
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Florence Town Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Dotson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Sandstone
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Franconia
Welcome to Hanska
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Old Brewery In Preston
State Theater In Hutchinson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Little Marais Inn
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Oxford Mill Ruin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Moderne New Ulm Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
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...

