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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Townhomes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Landmark Center In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Greater Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
William J Mayo was the older of the two Mayo brothers who, along with five partners, founded the...
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Ruins of Sawyer School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Enter Marlon Brando
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Little Marais Inn
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome to Hanska
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Little Falls Depot
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Red Wing Iron Works
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
District 6 School in New Sweden
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Duluth Homestead Project
Florence Town Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Remembering Quadna Resort
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Finding The Past In Swatara
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Dotson
The End of the Line in Currie
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Cobden
The Almelund Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Endion School In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Old Brewery In Preston
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood Town Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Milford Monument
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
State Theater In Hutchinson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lost Highway 61
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township 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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...

