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 Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
In March 1963, the Twin Cities were rocked by a shocking and brutal crime – the murder of Carol...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Townhomes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Robbinsdale Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gates of Stonebridge
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Settled in 1854 by Pennsylvania native Benjamin Spencer, Spencer Brook was one of the first...
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
District 48 School Near Delano
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Visiting Golden Gate
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Green Lake Mounds
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Little Marais Inn
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The End of the Line in Currie
Endion School In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Franconia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Remembering Quadna Resort
Little Falls Depot
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Florence Town Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Old School In Wolverton
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Cobden
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The New Ulm Company Service Station
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Dotson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
State Theater In Hutchinson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hollywood Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Enter Marlon Brando
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hanover Bridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Almelund Creamery
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Milford Monument
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Endion Depot In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Ottawa
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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