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
Wilder Public Baths
It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
District #28 School in Ramsey
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Apartments
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Two Island Project In the fall of 1953, the peaceful quiet of the north shore just south of...
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...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Visiting Golden Gate
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Cobden
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hollywood Town Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Green Lake Mounds
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Finding The Past In Swatara
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Dotson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Red Wing Iron Works
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Church of the Holy Cross
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome to Hanska
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lost Highway 61
State Theater In Hutchinson
District 48 School Near Delano
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Ottawa
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Enter Marlon Brando
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Moderne New Ulm Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Almelund Creamery
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Remembering Quadna Resort
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Franconia
The Milford Monument
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Old Brewery In Preston
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Little Falls Depot
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The End of the Line in Currie
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Wasioja
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
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...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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