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
Wilder Public Baths
It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Robbinsdale Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Townhomes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Greater Minnesota
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
William J Mayo was the older of the two Mayo brothers who, along with five partners, founded the...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Minnesota Home School for Girls was established by the state legislature in 1907 as a...
Endion School In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Old Wadena
Enter Marlon Brando
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Jordan Brewery Complex
The End of the Line in Currie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Munger Terrace In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Milford Monument
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Cobden
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering Quadna Resort
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Green Lake Mounds
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Franconia
Exploring Sandstone
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood Town Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Almelund Creamery
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Duluth Homestead Project
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Wasioja
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Dotson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Endion Depot In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lost Highway 61
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Ottawa
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taylor House In Le Sueur
District 48 School Near Delano
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hanover Bridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Old Brewery In Preston
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Moderne New Ulm Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Visiting Golden Gate
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Le Sueur Theater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
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...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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