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
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gates of Stonebridge
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Robbinsdale Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Eight Days in May Protests
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Moving Old Hibbing
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Bend in the River Regional Park
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Wasioja
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Ottawa
Finding The Past In Swatara
Red Wing Iron Works
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Cobden
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Florence Town Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Sandstone
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Franconia
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Ruins of Sawyer School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Little Marais Inn
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Little Falls Depot
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
State Theater In Hutchinson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Milford Monument
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Endion School In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Moderne New Ulm Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Dotson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Endion Depot In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Old School In Wolverton
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lost Highway 61
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The End of the Line in Currie
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Visiting Golden Gate
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 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?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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