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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Eight Days in May Protests
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Saint Paul Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Apartments
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Pine Tree Lumber Company was established in Little Falls in 1890. Located on the banks of the...
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Endion Depot in Duluth, Minnesota, was moved to Canal Park in 1986 to make way for the...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hollywood Town Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Enter Marlon Brando
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The End of the Line in Currie
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Little Falls Depot
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Little Marais Inn
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Visiting Golden Gate
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Oxford Mill Ruin
Florence Town Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Le Sueur Theater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Moving Old Hibbing
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Franconia
Hanover Bridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Almelund Creamery
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Church of the Holy Cross
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lost Highway 61
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Ruins of Sawyer School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Old Wadena
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Endion School In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Duluth Homestead Project
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Green Lake Mounds
Remembering Quadna Resort
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
District 48 School Near Delano
Finding The Past In Swatara
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Ottawa
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Wasioja
Lincoln Park In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bend in the River Regional Park
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome to Hanska
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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