In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
At the turn of the twentieth century, newspapers and magazines touted quack cures and healing cults...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Landmark Center In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Robbinsdale Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wilder Public Baths
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Greater Minnesota
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...
Little Falls Depot
Construction started on the railroad depot in Little Falls in 1899. It was designed by Cass Gilbert...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hollywood Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Endion School In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Ottawa
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Old School In Wolverton
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome to Hanska
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Finding The Past In Swatara
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
The Milford Monument
Historic Franconia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Lost Highway 61
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Duluth Homestead Project
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Almelund Creamery
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Sandstone
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Wasioja
Hanover Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Jordan Brewery Complex
Meyer School In St Augusta
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Little Marais Inn
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
State Theater In Hutchinson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Dotson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

