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
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Apartments
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bend in the River Regional Park is located on the former property of the Graves family. The...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Lincoln Branch of the Duluth Public Library opened in 1917 thanks to $30,000 from Andrew...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Ottawa
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Milford Monument
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Finding The Past In Swatara
Little Falls Depot
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Almelund Creamery
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Visiting Golden Gate
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Florence Town Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Old Brewery In Preston
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Cobden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Green Lake Mounds
The Old School In Wolverton
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Sandstone
Remembering Quadna Resort
The End of the Line in Currie
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Le Sueur Theater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Endion School In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Welcome to Hanska
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hanover Bridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lost Highway 61
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
District 48 School Near Delano
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Little Marais Inn
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Old Wadena
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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