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
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Townhomes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Eight Days in May Protests
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wilder Public Baths
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Greater Minnesota
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
After one hundred and twenty years, the mystery of what happened to Clara Ober between the evening...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Free Public Library in Hutchinson, Minnesota, was first organized in 1874 by early settlers of...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Jordan Brewery Complex
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Red Wing Iron Works
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
State Theater In Hutchinson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Little Falls Depot
The Milford Monument
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Le Sueur Theater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bend in the River Regional Park
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Florence Town Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Oxford Mill Ruin
District 48 School Near Delano
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome to Hanska
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Sandstone
District 6 School in New Sweden
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hollywood Town Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Dotson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Enter Marlon Brando
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Old Brewery In Preston
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Ottawa
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Ruins of Sawyer School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Remembering Quadna Resort
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Wasioja
Visiting Golden Gate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hanover Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Little Marais Inn
Finding The Past In Swatara
The End of the Line in Currie
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Green Lake Mounds
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Endion Depot In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
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...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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