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 Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Saint Paul Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
District #28 School in Ramsey
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gates of Stonebridge
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Townhomes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Englanders who settled in the St Croix Valley were drawn there because of the thick, wild...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Pine Tree Lumber Company was established in Little Falls in 1890. Located on the banks of the...
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Hollywood Town Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Meyer School In St Augusta
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lost Highway 61
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Church of the Holy Cross
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Milford Monument
District 48 School Near Delano
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Enter Marlon Brando
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Finding The Past In Swatara
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Endion Depot In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Almond White and the Motley Castle
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Brewery In Preston
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome to Hanska
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The End of the Line in Currie
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Ruins of Sawyer School
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Little Falls Depot
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Dotson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hanover Bridge
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Cobden
The Almelund Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Red Wing Iron Works
Moving Old Hibbing
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Ottawa
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Little Marais Inn
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Old Wadena
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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