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 Saint Paul Hotel
The St Paul Hotel has been the backbone of charm and elegance in downtown St Paul since it opened...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wilder Public Baths
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Townhomes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Robbinsdale Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Greater Minnesota
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Pine Tree Lumber Company was established in Little Falls in 1890. Located on the banks of the...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Le Sueur Theater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The End of the Line in Currie
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lincoln Park In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Old Brewery In Preston
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome to Hanska
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Cobden
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Almelund Creamery
Enter Marlon Brando
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Little Marais Inn
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Old School In Wolverton
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Ottawa
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Franconia
Visiting Golden Gate
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Finding The Past In Swatara
Red Wing Iron Works
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The New Ulm Company Service Station
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Historic Wasioja
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lost Highway 61
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Endion School In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Milford Monument
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Duluth Homestead Project
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Ruins of Sawyer School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Dotson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
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...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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