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
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wilder Public Baths
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Eight Days in May Protests
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Greater Minnesota
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Donald and Carrie Balfour house in Rochester, Minnesota, is a lovely example of how an Arts and...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Built in 1898, the West Riverside School was originally known as District #38 School. Isanti County...
Ruins of Sawyer School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Le Sueur Theater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Little Falls Depot
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Red Wing Iron Works
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Cobden
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Duluth Homestead Project
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Endion Depot In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lost Highway 61
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Finding The Past In Swatara
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Old Brewery In Preston
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Old Wadena
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Ottawa
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Sandstone
Endion School In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Remembering Quadna Resort
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Almelund Creamery
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Little Marais Inn
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 6 School in New Sweden
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Wasioja
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Old School In Wolverton
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hollywood Town Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Franconia
District 48 School Near Delano
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Dotson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Moving Old Hibbing
Enter Marlon Brando
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Meyer School In St Augusta
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bend in the River Regional Park
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Milford Monument
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome to Hanska
The End of the Line in Currie
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
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