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 William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wilder Public Baths
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Eight Days in May Protests
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Apartments
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Townhomes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Greater Minnesota
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The George and Charlotte Crosby house is located just a few blocks east of downtown Duluth...
Hollywood Town Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hanover Bridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Endion School In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Church of the Holy Cross
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Florence Town Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Milford Monument
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Le Sueur Theater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Green Lake Mounds
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Bend in the River Regional Park
Oxford Mill Ruin
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Cobden
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Old Brewery In Preston
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
District 6 School in New Sweden
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Endion Depot In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
Enter Marlon Brando
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Dotson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Ottawa
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Red Wing Iron Works
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
State Theater In Hutchinson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
District 48 School Near Delano
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Lost Highway 61
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Wasioja
Remembering Quadna Resort
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
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
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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