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...
Wilder Public Baths
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Robbinsdale Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
One of the earliest victims of the big blow on Lake Superior in November of 1905 was the steamer...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Beaver Bay is the oldest white settlement along the North Shore of Lake Superior. It was...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
State Theater In Hutchinson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Visiting Golden Gate
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Endion Depot In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Old Brewery In Preston
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Milford Monument
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Enter Marlon Brando
The Duluth Homestead Project
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lost Highway 61
Little Falls Depot
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hollywood Town Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Almelund Creamery
Bend in the River Regional Park
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Little Marais Inn
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Wasioja
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Sandstone
Oxford Mill Ruin
Finding The Past In Swatara
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Cobden
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Franconia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Red Wing Iron Works
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Jordan Brewery Complex
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Dotson
The Old School In Wolverton
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
District 6 School in New Sweden
Moving Old Hibbing
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Meyer School In St Augusta
Florence Town Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Ottawa
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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