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
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Townhomes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Greater Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
In 1929, the Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge was established in Lanesboro, Minnesota. Membership...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Ottawa
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Little Marais Inn
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Old Wadena
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Church of the Holy Cross
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Endion Depot In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Meyer School In St Augusta
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bend in the River Regional Park
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Sandstone
Hanover Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lost Highway 61
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Old Brewery In Preston
Moving Old Hibbing
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Franconia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
State Theater In Hutchinson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Ruins of Sawyer School
Visiting Golden Gate
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Almelund Creamery
The Duluth Homestead Project
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Milford Monument
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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