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 Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Saint Paul Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wilder Public Baths
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gates of Stonebridge
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Florence Town Hall
Florence Town Hall is located along Highway 61 in Frontenac Station. The land to build the town...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Old School In Wolverton
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Wasioja
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Almelund Creamery
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Sandstone
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Moving Old Hibbing
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hanover Bridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Dotson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Franconia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome to Hanska
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Green Lake Mounds
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Milford Monument
Jordan Brewery Complex
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Ruins of Sawyer School
Endion School In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Red Wing Iron Works
District 48 School Near Delano
Little Falls Depot
Visiting Golden Gate
Bend in the River Regional Park
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Church of the Holy Cross
Old Brewery In Preston
Lost Highway 61
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Ottawa
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Cobden
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The End of the Line in Currie
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Old Wadena
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Enter Marlon Brando
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown