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
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gates of Stonebridge
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Churchill Methodist Church is located in present-day Brookfield Township, Minnesota. The...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Early settler and local banker Edson Smith built this French Second Empire style home for his...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Wasioja
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Almelund Creamery
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Church of the Holy Cross
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Red Wing Iron Works
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Little Falls Depot
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Cobden
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
The End of the Line in Currie
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Enter Marlon Brando
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Florence Town Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood Town Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
District 6 School in New Sweden
Visiting Golden Gate
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lost Highway 61
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Le Sueur Theater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Dotson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Exploring Sandstone
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Moving Old Hibbing
Oxford Mill Ruin
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Franconia
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Old Brewery In Preston
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hanover Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The New Ulm Company Service Station
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
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...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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