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
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Apartments
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Townhomes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wilder Public Baths
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Daniel Piper came to Minnesota from New Hampshire with his wife and daughter in early 1877...
Visiting Golden Gate
A post office was first established in Golden Gate, Minnesota, in 1868. The little town sprang up...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lost Highway 61
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Cobden
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Dotson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Sandstone
Hollywood Town Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Red Wing Iron Works
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
State Theater In Hutchinson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Almelund Creamery
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Little Marais Inn
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Florence Town Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
District 48 School Near Delano
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Church of the Holy Cross
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 6 School in New Sweden
Endion School In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Old Wadena
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Old School In Wolverton
Moderne New Ulm Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Finding The Past In Swatara
Moving Old Hibbing
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Franconia
Historic Wasioja
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Old Brewery In Preston
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Le Sueur Theater
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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