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
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Apartments
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Townhomes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Greater Minnesota
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Adolph Biermann house in Rochester is the oldest documented structure in the Mayowood Historic...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Milford Monument
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Ottawa
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Sandstone
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lost Highway 61
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Franconia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Little Falls Depot
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The End of the Line in Currie
District 48 School Near Delano
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Moving Old Hibbing
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Endion School In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Red Wing Iron Works
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Wasioja
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Old Wadena
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Florence Town Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bend in the River Regional Park
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood Town Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 6 School in New Sweden
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome to Hanska
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Almelund Creamery
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Little Marais Inn
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Green Lake Mounds
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Endion Depot In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hanover Bridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Enter Marlon Brando
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
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...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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