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