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
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
This beauty was built in 1914 and is St Paul’s largest Prairie Style house at just under 3,000...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Landmark Center In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gates of Stonebridge
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Le Sueur Theater
The Le Sueur Theater on Main Street in Le Sueur, Minnesota, opened in 1884. The building was...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Dotson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Cobden
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hollywood Town Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Franconia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Old Brewery In Preston
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Little Marais Inn
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Wasioja
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The End of the Line in Currie
Endion School In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hanover Bridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Florence Town Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Ruins of Sawyer School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Visiting Golden Gate
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Moving Old Hibbing
Meyer School In St Augusta
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Red Wing Iron Works
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Almelund Creamery
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Finding The Past In Swatara
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Moderne New Ulm Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lost Highway 61
Welcome to Hanska
State Theater In Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Sandstone
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City 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 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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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