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
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
The Swinford Townhomes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gates of Stonebridge
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wilder Public Baths
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Robbinsdale Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Apartments
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Greater Minnesota
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Arthur Orr was a 286’ steel package freighter built by the Chicago Ship Building Company. She...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Geldner Sawmill stands on a narrow strip of land that separates Lake Jefferson and German Lake...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Enter Marlon Brando
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Remembering Quadna Resort
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
The Le Sueur Theater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Church of the Holy Cross
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Red Wing Iron Works
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Old Brewery In Preston
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Little Falls Depot
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The End of the Line in Currie
Green Lake Mounds
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
District 6 School in New Sweden
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
District 48 School Near Delano
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Duluth Homestead Project
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Wasioja
Welcome to Hanska
Meyer School In St Augusta
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Little Marais Inn
Visiting Golden Gate
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Old Wadena
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Milford Monument
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Cobden
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lost Highway 61
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Moving Old Hibbing
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Florence Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hollywood Town Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital 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 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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown