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
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Built between 1902 and 1904, this beautiful building on its shady lot served southeast Minneapolis...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gates of Stonebridge
Robbinsdale Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Saint Paul Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wilder Public Baths
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
You can’t drive through Zumbrota, Minnesota, without stopping at the covered bridge. It’s located...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
The Old School In Wolverton
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
State Theater In Hutchinson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lincoln Park In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Visiting Golden Gate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Le Sueur Theater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
District 48 School Near Delano
Ruins of Sawyer School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Little Marais Inn
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Duluth Homestead Project
Remembering Quadna Resort
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Endion School In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lost Highway 61
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Ottawa
Bend in the River Regional Park
Oxford Mill Ruin
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Endion Depot In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jordan Brewery Complex
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Red Wing Iron Works
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Enter Marlon Brando
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Wasioja
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Little Falls Depot
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Moving Old Hibbing
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Milford Monument
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Sandstone
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
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...
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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