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
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance Building In...
The Germania Life Insurance Building was built in 1889 at Fourth Street and Minnesota in downtown...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gates of Stonebridge
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
William Colvill — does that name ring a bell? Unless you're a Civil War history buff, this name...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The End of the Line in Currie
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bend in the River Regional Park
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Florence Town Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Milford Monument
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Franconia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Almelund Creamery
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Green Lake Mounds
State Theater In Hutchinson
Red Wing Iron Works
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Endion School In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
District 48 School Near Delano
Enter Marlon Brando
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lost Highway 61
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Le Sueur Theater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Sandstone
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Visiting Golden Gate
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hollywood Town Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Dotson
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Cobden
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Wasioja
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Old School In Wolverton
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Old Brewery In Preston
Moving Old Hibbing
Moderne New Ulm Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
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