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
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wilder Public Baths
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Apartments
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Saint Paul Hotel
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Robbinsdale Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Greater Minnesota
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
William J Mayo was the older of the two Mayo brothers who, along with five partners, founded the...
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Finding The Past In Swatara
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Meyer School In St Augusta
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Florence Town Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The End of the Line in Currie
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Cobden
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Ottawa
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Le Sueur Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Franconia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Milford Monument
The Duluth Homestead Project
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Old Brewery In Preston
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood Town Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Visiting Golden Gate
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lost Highway 61
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
State Theater In Hutchinson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Moving Old Hibbing
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
District 48 School Near Delano
District 6 School in New Sweden
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Old School In Wolverton
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Red Wing Iron Works
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Green Lake Mounds
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Dotson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hanover Bridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Church of the Holy Cross
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
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
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
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 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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
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...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital 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