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 Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Saint Paul Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wilder Public Baths
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Townhomes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Vermont-native Almond A. White came to Minnesota after the Civil War and settled in Brainerd for a...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Franconia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Green Lake Mounds
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
District 48 School Near Delano
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Ruins of Sawyer School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Enter Marlon Brando
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Little Falls Depot
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Ottawa
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Moving Old Hibbing
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Dotson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Endion Depot In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bend in the River Regional Park
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Almelund Creamery
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Old School In Wolverton
Visiting Golden Gate
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Red Wing Iron Works
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Church of the Holy Cross
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hanover Bridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hollywood Town Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Endion School In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Cobden
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Wasioja
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Milford Monument
District 6 School in New Sweden
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
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 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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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