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
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Apartments
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Saint Paul Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Built in 1898, the West Riverside School was originally known as District #38 School. Isanti County...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bend in the River Regional Park
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Oxford Mill Ruin
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Green Lake Mounds
Moderne New Ulm Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lost Highway 61
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Dotson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Meyer School In St Augusta
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome to Hanska
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Duluth Homestead Project
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Wasioja
Historic Franconia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
District 6 School in New Sweden
Red Wing Iron Works
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Ottawa
Endion Depot In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Moving Old Hibbing
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hanover Bridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood Town Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Le Sueur Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Sandstone
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
District 48 School Near Delano
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Milford Monument
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Cobden
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Dead Good Walks
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
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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