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 Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George H. Christian was a manager at the Washburn-Crosby Company in Minneapolis who worked out a...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Townhomes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Greater Minnesota
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Chisago County State Bank was built in Center City in 1915. In August 1925, more than 60...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Little Falls Depot
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Green Lake Mounds
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Cobden
The Almelund Creamery
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Milford Monument
Moderne New Ulm Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
Finding The Past In Swatara
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hanover Bridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Little Marais Inn
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bend in the River Regional Park
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lost Highway 61
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Le Sueur Theater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
District 48 School Near Delano
Endion School In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Wasioja
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome to Hanska
District 6 School in New Sweden
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Moving Old Hibbing
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Dotson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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