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
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Robbinsdale Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Saint Paul Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Scottish immigrant James G Craigie settled in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, along with his wife...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Sandstone
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Little Marais Inn
Red Wing Iron Works
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Milford Monument
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome to Hanska
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Duluth Homestead Project
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The End of the Line in Currie
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Dotson
Endion Depot In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Moderne New Ulm Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Daniel Piper House in Medford
State Theater In Hutchinson
Florence Town Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lost Highway 61
District 48 School Near Delano
Green Lake Mounds
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
The Old School In Wolverton
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Visiting Golden Gate
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Cobden
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Little Falls Depot
Finding The Past In Swatara
Meyer School In St Augusta
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Moving Old Hibbing
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hanover Bridge
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
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