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
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wilder Public Baths
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Pine Tree Lumber Company was established in Little Falls in 1890. Located on the banks of the...
Little Falls Depot
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Moving Old Hibbing
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Visiting Golden Gate
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Little Marais Inn
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome to Hanska
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lost Highway 61
Hanover Bridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Old School In Wolverton
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering Quadna Resort
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Red Wing Iron Works
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Endion Depot In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Franconia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Wasioja
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Almelund Creamery
Green Lake Mounds
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Florence Town Hall
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Sandstone
Meyer School In St Augusta
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Ottawa
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The End of the Line in Currie
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Endion School In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Milford Monument
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Church of the Holy Cross
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Cobden
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Old Brewery In Preston
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Le Sueur Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
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...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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