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
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Originally named the Palazzo, the Colonnade Hotel opened on St. Peter Street in Saint Paul in 1888...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Saint Paul Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wilder Public Baths
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
District #28 School in Ramsey
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Greater Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
There are quite a few examples of the gorgeous Eastlake-style architecture in Minnesota, but this...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bend in the River Regional Park
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Little Marais Inn
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Milford Monument
Florence Town Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Le Sueur Theater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Moving Old Hibbing
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Wasioja
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Oxford Mill Ruin
Little Falls Depot
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Ottawa
Ruins of Sawyer School
Endion Depot In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome to Hanska
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Cobden
Enter Marlon Brando
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
District 48 School Near Delano
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Church of the Holy Cross
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Old Brewery In Preston
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lost Highway 61
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Franconia
The Almelund Creamery
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The End of the Line in Currie
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
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