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 Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Eight Days in May Protests
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Landmark Center In St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Robbinsdale Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wilder Public Baths
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Greater Minnesota
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
I’m sure we’ve all made typos that made us cringe once we noticed them. But most of our...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Endion Depot In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome To Dotson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Florence Town Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Red Wing Iron Works
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Old Wadena
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Milford Monument
District 6 School in New Sweden
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Ottawa
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Little Falls Depot
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Church of the Holy Cross
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Le Sueur Theater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lost Highway 61
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Wasioja
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Franconia
Old Brewery In Preston
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Visiting Golden Gate
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The End of the Line in Currie
The Little Marais Inn
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Old School In Wolverton
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Sandstone
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hanover Bridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Green Lake Mounds
Hollywood Town Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Jordan Brewery Complex
Endion School In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome to Hanska
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
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
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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