In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Wilder Public Baths
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Greater Minnesota
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Early settler and local banker Edson Smith built this French Second Empire style home for his...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Visiting Golden Gate
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Old School In Wolverton
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The End of the Line in Currie
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Cobden
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Enter Marlon Brando
Lost Highway 61
Historic Wasioja
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Little Falls Depot
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Moving Old Hibbing
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Church of the Holy Cross
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Milford Monument
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Ruins of Sawyer School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Moderne New Ulm Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Green Lake Mounds
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Brewery In Preston
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Almelund Creamery
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Jordan Brewery Complex
Endion Depot In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Florence Town Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Franconia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Dotson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Endion School In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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