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 Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Wilder Public Baths
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Apartments
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Townhomes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
In 1957, trucks loaded with prefabricated homes rolled along Highway 61 toward a new building site...
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome to Hanska
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Green Lake Mounds
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Milford Monument
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Randall Cooperative Creamery
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Old School In Wolverton
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
District 48 School Near Delano
Enter Marlon Brando
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Endion Depot In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Old Brewery In Preston
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bend in the River Regional Park
Red Wing Iron Works
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Almelund Creamery
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Wasioja
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Franconia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Cobden
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Florence Town Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Oxford Mill Ruin
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The End of the Line in Currie
State Theater In Hutchinson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Little Falls Depot
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lost Highway 61
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Moving Old Hibbing
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hanover Bridge
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
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 East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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