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 William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Townhomes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Eight Days in May Protests
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Endion Depot in Duluth, Minnesota, was moved to Canal Park in 1986 to make way for the...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pennsylvania-native Joseph Renshaw Brown arrived in Minnesota at the age of 14 with the Army. He...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Old Brewery In Preston
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Visiting Golden Gate
Enter Marlon Brando
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Sandstone
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Duluth Homestead Project
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Wasioja
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
District 48 School Near Delano
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Cobden
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Milford Monument
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Ottawa
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The End of the Line in Currie
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Franconia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome to Hanska
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Dotson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Old School In Wolverton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Finding The Past In Swatara
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lost Highway 61
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Remembering Quadna Resort
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Le Sueur Theater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Little Falls Depot
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The New Ulm Company Service Station
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
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?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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