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
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Located in Robbinsdale, the international-style Terrace Theatre opened on May 23, 1951. At the...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Townhomes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gates of Stonebridge
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Greater Minnesota
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Free Public Library in Hutchinson, Minnesota, was first organized in 1874 by early settlers of...
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
Historic Wasioja
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Visiting Golden Gate
Red Wing Iron Works
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hanover Bridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 48 School Near Delano
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Old School In Wolverton
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Cobden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Duluth Homestead Project
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Endion Depot In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Old Wadena
Endion School In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Moderne New Ulm Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Green Lake Mounds
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Florence Town Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Oxford Mill Ruin
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hollywood Town Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Meyer School In St Augusta
Enter Marlon Brando
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The End of the Line in Currie
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
District 6 School in New Sweden
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Sandstone
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Little Marais Inn
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Church of the Holy Cross
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Milford Monument
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Franconia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lost Highway 61
Old Brewery In Preston
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Almelund Creamery
Moving Old Hibbing
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
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