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
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wilder Public Baths
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Eight Days in May Protests
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Robbinsdale Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Greater Minnesota
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
In 1872, Joseph Schmucker took over operation of Friton Brewery, which was the first brewery to...
Welcome To Old Wadena
The townsite now known as Old Wadena was located on the Crow Wing River between the mouths of the...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hollywood Town Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lost Highway 61
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hanover Bridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Sandstone
Old Brewery In Preston
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Wasioja
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Munger Terrace In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
The Little Marais Inn
Endion Depot In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Ottawa
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Moving Old Hibbing
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Cobden
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Dotson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Little Falls Depot
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Almelund Creamery
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Le Sueur Theater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Finding The Past In Swatara
The End of the Line in Currie
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Red Wing Iron Works
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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