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 Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis was founded in 1907 by 39 of the city’s most influential women.This...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wilder Public Baths
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gates of Stonebridge
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Landmark Center In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Robbinsdale Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Greater Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Daniel Piper came to Minnesota from New Hampshire with his wife and daughter in early 1877...
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...
Welcome to Hanska
Bend in the River Regional Park
Meyer School In St Augusta
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lost Highway 61
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Milford Monument
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The End of the Line in Currie
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Oxford Mill Ruin
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Visiting Golden Gate
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Le Sueur Theater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Enter Marlon Brando
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Moving Old Hibbing
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Florence Town Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Cobden
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Sandstone
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Dotson
Green Lake Mounds
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Old Wadena
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Old School In Wolverton
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Franconia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hollywood Town Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Ottawa
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Endion School In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
District 48 School Near Delano
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
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 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
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 Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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