Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Twin Cities Area
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
In 1899, the Twin City Rapid Transit Company extended its reach of their streetcars to the...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Eight Days in May Protests
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Landmark Center In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Greater Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A library was first established in Two Harbors, Minnesota in 1897. A group of citizens banded...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Cobden
The Little Marais Inn
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome to Hanska
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
State Theater In Hutchinson
Endion School In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Wasioja
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Duluth Homestead Project
Enter Marlon Brando
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Little Falls Depot
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Dotson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Le Sueur Theater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hanover Bridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Red Wing Iron Works
Jordan Brewery Complex
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Sandstone
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Brewery In Preston
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Ruins of Sawyer School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Visiting Golden Gate
The Old School In Wolverton
Bend in the River Regional Park
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Green Lake Mounds
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hollywood Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Meyer School In St Augusta
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Endion Depot In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The New Ulm Company Service Station
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Florence Town Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lost Highway 61
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Ottawa
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Franconia
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
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...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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