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
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Eight Days in May Protests
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Saint Paul Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Red Wing Iron Works
Red Wing Iron Works was founded in 1866 by brothers Benjamin and Daniel Densmore. They found a...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lost Highway 61
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bend in the River Regional Park
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Le Sueur Theater
Green Lake Mounds
Moderne New Ulm Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Little Marais Inn
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Jordan Brewery Complex
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Oxford Mill Ruin
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Moving Old Hibbing
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hanover Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring Sandstone
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Old School In Wolverton
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hollywood Town Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Wasioja
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Ruins of Sawyer School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The End of the Line in Currie
Florence Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Dotson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Franconia
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Old Brewery In Preston
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Enter Marlon Brando
Visiting Golden Gate
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Little Falls Depot
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome to Hanska
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Cobden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Endion School In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
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...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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