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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Eight Days in May Protests
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Robbinsdale Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wilder Public Baths
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Greater Minnesota
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two weeks after the James–Younger Gang raided Northfield the gang appeared at the farm of Ole...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
In 1872, Joseph Schmucker took over operation of Friton Brewery, which was the first brewery to...
Jordan Brewery Complex
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Franconia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Finding The Past In Swatara
Ruins of Sawyer School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Dotson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Oxford Mill Ruin
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Green Lake Mounds
Florence Town Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Cobden
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
District 48 School Near Delano
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Little Falls Depot
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Enter Marlon Brando
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Old School In Wolverton
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lost Highway 61
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The End of the Line in Currie
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Milford Monument
Exploring Sandstone
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hanover Bridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Endion School In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Wasioja
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Munger Terrace In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Visiting Golden Gate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown