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...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wilder Public Baths
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Greater Minnesota
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
In 1909, just eight years after this school was built in Sandstone, lightning struck. Sadly, the...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
After 120 years, the mystery of what happened to Clara Ober between the evening of July 29th, 1895...
Moving Old Hibbing
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Little Falls Depot
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Old School In Wolverton
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Wasioja
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Franconia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Green Lake Mounds
Florence Town Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Cobden
The Milford Monument
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
District 48 School Near Delano
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Old Wadena
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lost Highway 61
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Church of the Holy Cross
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
State Theater In Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Duluth Homestead Project
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Red Wing Iron Works
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hanover Bridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Old Brewery In Preston
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Dotson
The Little Marais Inn
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Ottawa
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Lincoln Park In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Visiting Golden Gate
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
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 First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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