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