In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Eight Days in May Protests
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Greater Minnesota
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge (Svenska Mission Kyrka i Sodre Maple Ridge)...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Green Lake Mounds
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Endion School In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
State Theater In Hutchinson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Sandstone
The Almelund Creamery
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hanover Bridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Old Brewery In Preston
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lost Highway 61
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome to Hanska
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Dotson
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Enter Marlon Brando
Visiting Golden Gate
Florence Town Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Franconia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Old Wadena
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Little Falls Depot
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Bend in the River Regional Park
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Jordan Brewery Complex
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Milford Monument
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The End of the Line in Currie
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
District 48 School Near Delano
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Wasioja
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
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...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

