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
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis was one of the rare mills in the city that had four finished...
The Swinford Apartments
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wilder Public Baths
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Townhomes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Saint Paul Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Robbinsdale Library
Greater Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Wasioja
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Dotson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Florence Town Hall
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The End of the Line in Currie
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
District 48 School Near Delano
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Church of the Holy Cross
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Red Wing Iron Works
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hollywood Town Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Ottawa
Green Lake Mounds
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Sandstone
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Almelund Creamery
State Theater In Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Milford Monument
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Jordan Brewery Complex
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hanover Bridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Old School In Wolverton
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Visiting Golden Gate
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Endion School In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Franconia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Le Sueur Theater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Cobden
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
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...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
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