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 End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Townhomes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Saint Paul Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Apartments
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
For several years, Tenney held the distinction of being Minnesota’s smallest town. The 2010 census...
Welcome To Old Wadena
The townsite now known as Old Wadena was located on the Crow Wing River between the mouths of the...
Exploring Ottawa
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The End of the Line in Currie
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Red Wing Iron Works
The Old School In Wolverton
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Cobden
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome to Hanska
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Endion School In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Moving Old Hibbing
Little Falls Depot
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Wasioja
The Milford Monument
The Little Marais Inn
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hanover Bridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Franconia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
District 48 School Near Delano
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
District 6 School in New Sweden
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lost Highway 61
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Duluth Homestead Project
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Brewery In Preston
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Green Lake Mounds
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Florence Town Hall
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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