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 Gates of Stonebridge
In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Apartments
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
After 120 years, the mystery of what happened to Clara Ober between the evening of July 29th, 1895...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
In 1872, Joseph Schmucker took over operation of Friton Brewery, which was the first brewery to...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hanover Bridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Almelund Creamery
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Little Marais Inn
The Le Sueur Theater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Franconia
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Old Brewery In Preston
Green Lake Mounds
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Old School In Wolverton
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Enter Marlon Brando
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Visiting Golden Gate
Florence Town Hall
Little Falls Depot
Historic Wasioja
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lost Highway 61
District 6 School in New Sweden
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Milford Monument
The End of the Line in Currie
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion School In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Red Wing Iron Works
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Church of the Holy Cross
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Old Wadena
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Endion Depot In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Ruins of Sawyer School
Oxford Mill Ruin
Moderne New Ulm Library
District 48 School Near Delano
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Dotson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Cobden
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
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...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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