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 Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Saint Paul Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Robbinsdale Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Shortly after midnight on November 28, 1905, the Crescent City dropped anchor in 90-feet of water...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
In 1872, Joseph Schmucker took over operation of Friton Brewery, which was the first brewery to...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
District 48 School Near Delano
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lost Highway 61
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Ottawa
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Cobden
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Wasioja
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Visiting Golden Gate
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Ruins of Sawyer School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Old School In Wolverton
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Florence Town Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Milford Monument
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Dotson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Sandstone
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hanover Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Little Marais Inn
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Little Falls Depot
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Red Wing Iron Works
Oxford Mill Ruin
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Green Lake Mounds
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The End of the Line in Currie
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Enter Marlon Brando
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome to Hanska
Hollywood Town Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Franconia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Jordan Brewery Complex
Moving Old Hibbing
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Endion School In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
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...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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