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
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
It may have been luck that spared the Colonnade Hotel the same fate as so many other old downtown...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wilder Public Baths
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Le Sueur Theater
The Le Sueur Theater on Main Street in Le Sueur, Minnesota, opened in 1884. The building was...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George Neuwirth operated a popular bowling alley and bar throughout the 1930s and 1940s in New Ulm...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Almelund Creamery
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Old School In Wolverton
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Little Marais Inn
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lost Highway 61
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Red Wing Iron Works
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Florence Town Hall
Historic Franconia
District 6 School in New Sweden
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Ottawa
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
District 48 School Near Delano
Old Brewery In Preston
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Enter Marlon Brando
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Moving Old Hibbing
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Green Lake Mounds
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Dotson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Cobden
Finding The Past In Swatara
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Visiting Golden Gate
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Ruins of Sawyer School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Wasioja
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Jordan Brewery Complex
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Milford Monument
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring Sandstone
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The End of the Line in Currie
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Little Falls Depot
Endion School In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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