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
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School opened in Minneapolis in 1932. The school was named after Mary...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Townhomes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Saint Paul Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Robbinsdale Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A library was first established in Two Harbors, Minnesota in 1897. A group of citizens banded...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lost Highway 61
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Cobden
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Sandstone
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Enter Marlon Brando
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Franconia
The Old School In Wolverton
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Little Falls Depot
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Endion School In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Hanover Bridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Moderne New Ulm Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Red Wing Iron Works
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
District 48 School Near Delano
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Moving Old Hibbing
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Dotson
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood Town Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The End of the Line in Currie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Brewery In Preston
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
State Theater In Hutchinson
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Milford Monument
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Visiting Golden Gate
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
The Le Sueur Theater
Green Lake Mounds
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Old Wadena
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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