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
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Originally named the Palazzo, the Colonnade Hotel opened on St. Peter Street in Saint Paul in 1888...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wilder Public Baths
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Robbinsdale Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Landmark Center In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The original village hall in Waverly was built in 1893. The two-story, brick and stone building sat...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Finding The Past In Swatara
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
District 48 School Near Delano
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Wasioja
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Endion School In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Wandering Around The Toimi School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Green Lake Mounds
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Ruins of Sawyer School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Cobden
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Florence Town Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Old Brewery In Preston
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Le Sueur Theater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hanover Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Sandstone
Visiting Golden Gate
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bend in the River Regional Park
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Dotson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Ottawa
The Little Marais Inn
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Little Falls Depot
Moving Old Hibbing
The Milford Monument
Hollywood Town Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The End of the Line in Currie
Lost Highway 61
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
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...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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