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
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Robbinsdale Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gates of Stonebridge
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Settled in 1854 by Pennsylvania native Benjamin Spencer, Spencer Brook was one of the first...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Old Brewery In Preston
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Red Wing Iron Works
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Milford Monument
Endion School In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Florence Town Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Cobden
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Duluth Homestead Project
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hollywood Town Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Green Lake Mounds
The End of the Line in Currie
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Incline Railway
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering Quadna Resort
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hanover Bridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Almelund Creamery
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Franconia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Enter Marlon Brando
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Old Wadena
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Ruins of Sawyer School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Ottawa
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Old School In Wolverton
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lost Highway 61
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Wasioja
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Moving Old Hibbing
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
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