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...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gates of Stonebridge
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wilder Public Baths
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Robbinsdale Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
District 6 School in New Sweden
The District 6 school in New Sweden Township stands in a field surrounded by tall stalks of corn in...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
Endion School In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lost Highway 61
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Oxford Mill Ruin
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Ottawa
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Sandstone
Finding The Past In Swatara
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
District 48 School Near Delano
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hanover Bridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Green Lake Mounds
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Jordan Brewery Complex
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Franconia
Visiting Golden Gate
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Almelund Creamery
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome to Hanska
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Brewery In Preston
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Church of the Holy Cross
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The End of the Line in Currie
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Dotson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Wasioja
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Cobden
The Milford Monument
Bend in the River Regional Park
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Enter Marlon Brando
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
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...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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