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
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Robbinsdale Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ness Congregation was originally organized as the Norwegian Evangelical St. Johannes...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Enter Marlon Brando
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Almelund Creamery
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
State Theater In Hutchinson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome to Hanska
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Old School In Wolverton
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Dotson
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Little Marais Inn
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
District 48 School Near Delano
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hollywood Town Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The End of the Line in Currie
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering Quadna Resort
Florence Town Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Wasioja
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Ottawa
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Moving Old Hibbing
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lost Highway 61
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Franconia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Little Falls Depot
Hanover Bridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Moderne New Ulm Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Oxford Mill Ruin
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Cobden
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Old Wadena
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Ruins of Sawyer School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Old Brewery In Preston
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bend in the River Regional Park
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion School In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
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...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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