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 Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was founded in January 1897. The church...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Townhomes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Apartments
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
District 48 School Near Delano
It really hurts to see this old schoolhouse so neglected 😟 The Franklin Township (Minnesota)...
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Endion School In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Meyer School In St Augusta
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering Quadna Resort
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hanover Bridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Florence Town Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
The End of the Line in Currie
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lost Highway 61
Green Lake Mounds
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Milford Monument
Ruins of Sawyer School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Almelund Creamery
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Wasioja
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome to Hanska
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Le Sueur Theater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Old Brewery In Preston
Endion Depot In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hollywood Town Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Oxford Mill Ruin
State Theater In Hutchinson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Franconia
Exploring Ottawa
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jordan Brewery Complex
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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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 Laura Baker?
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Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital 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