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
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Greater Minnesota
Jordan Brewery Complex
During the 1860s, Jordan had become an early industrial center in Scott County and brewing became...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
After a devastating forest fire obliterated the villages of Finlayson, Hinckley, Miller, Mission...
The Almelund Creamery
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Franconia
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Le Sueur Theater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Florence Town Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome to Hanska
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Little Falls Depot
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Cobden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Oxford Mill Ruin
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Endion Depot In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Meyer School In St Augusta
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Old Brewery In Preston
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Visiting Golden Gate
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Church of the Holy Cross
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Dotson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Old Wadena
Moderne New Ulm Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Moving Old Hibbing
Green Lake Mounds
Lost Highway 61
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Enter Marlon Brando
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Sandstone
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Ottawa
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
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...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

